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February 1997

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-( 36 Facing Up to Fonts

Our all-inclusive guide to fonts— how to install them, manage them, and use them; which
ones are hot and which ones are not; where to find them, and more, by ted alspach

Just Your Type

Not satisfied with any of the fonts that are already out there? Feel like striking out on your
own? Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating your own font, by nikki echler with

KEN BOUSQUET

On the Road Again

Join us as we tool up the California coast, armed with four of the latest sub-$1 ,000 digital
cameras and a big pot of coffee. Our mission? To find out just how well these cameras fare
when taking vacation photos, by ray larson

Quest for System 8

Bored with the wait for System 8? Head out on your own quest with our board game. All you
need to play Is two people, some M&Ms, and a lot of time, by the macaddict team

This Oid Mac

Believe it or not, there’s a lot of life in that old Mac Plus yet. Check out the first in our series
on putting older Macs to good use. by t. kelley boylan

Fix Bad Scans

If you’re scanning photos, then you’ve probably run across at least one of these five common
problems. Here’s what to do next time you hit a snag.

The stuff legends are made
of— grab a travel pal, a big
coffee mug, and a digital
camera... ROAD TRIP!

Add Sound to a Web Page

So, your Web page looks great, it’s easy to navigate, and it’s got tons of super-useful
information. Now we’ll show you how to add sounds.

Rescue a Mac from
your town dump! Give
your “mature” Mac a
modern makeover.

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and every other
letter in the
alphabet, too.

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Wilt Titanic float your
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Check out the
MacAddict review!

every month

Editor’s Note

An interview with Apple’s Marco Landi and topical illuminations.

M Letters

Ramblings, stories, and questions from our readers.

28 Get Info

More on upcoming System software, a 500MHz processor,

, , clones of clones, and a dog of a contest.

3|2 Cravings

Six products we desire, crave, lust after, and really, really want.

11^66 Reviews

Photoshop 4, FreeHand 7, PowerBook 1400c, Avid Cinema,
Abuse, and other long-awaited tools.

itm Ask Us

Solving audio CD problems, installing an internal hard drive, and
how to use large monitors efficiently.

PowerPlay

Find out what it takes to make a successful port of a PC game.

Shut Down

Random and bizarre clippings from the world of Macs.

the disc

It’s a font spectacular this month. We’ve packed in sample
fonts and tools for creating and managing fonts. And, of
course, we’ve also included some of the best shareware
around, a handful of games, and batch of working demos of
current programs. And, don’t forget to check out our super-
secret contest.

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individual with outside interests and a firm grasp on reality, we
can deal with that as well). Mosey on down to the MacAddict
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news on the Web— or double your bandwidth back!

EDITORIAL.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cheryl England .

MANAGING EDITOR Judy Lewenthal
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nikki Echler, David Reynolds,

Kathy Tafel, Daniel Drew Turner (reviews)

CD-ROM: Thomas Hale (director, development),

Stephen Gifford (disc content consultant)

ONLINE EDITOR Mark Simmons
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Raf Anzovin, Steven Anzovin,
Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin
FREELANCE EDITOR Laura Fredrickson

ART

ART DIRECTOR Ken Bousquet
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Adam Vanderhoof
FREELjANCE DESIGNER Gloria Orbegozo

PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Lesovoy
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Ken Brandow

ADVERTISING

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REGIONAL AD MANAGER John Singer
REGIONAL AD MANAGER Christina Sorrentino
MARKETPLACE ACCOUNT MANAGER Mary Lachapelle
ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Jana Massey

CIRCULATION

NEWSSTAND DIRECTOR Bruce Eldridge
NEWSSTAND MANAGER Thea Selby
NEWSSTAND ANALYST Terry Lawson
CIRCULATION MANAGER Donna Badgett
FULFILLMENT MANAGER Dana Runkle
CIRCULATION CONSULTANT Gail Egbert

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Digital Images In.

Panasonic Introduces TruPhoto™, the digital photo printer.

The new Panasonic TmPhoto printer creates real photographs from
your PC or Macintosh® computer. Input an image into your computer
from photo CDs, floppy discs, digital cameras, the Internet or
scanners. Use your graphics program to manipulate the image,
then TruPhoto will print out a bright, brilliant 3”x 5" glossy
photograph. TruPhoto uses no toner or ink; it produces real photos
on Thermo- Autochrome paper. MGI Photo Suite™ for TruPhoto
is included, so you can use your computer to retouch, crop
and fix your photographs. And even create special effects,
baseball cards, birthday cards, calendars and more. There are lots
of ways to get digital images into your computer, but to get real
photographs out, you need TruPhoto from Panasonic.

Real Pnotos Out.

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MGI PhotoSuite is a registered trademark of MGI Software Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

The creative process has always been a mystery to some. To others, it^s a way of life. For them, we offer the S900.
A computer designed specifically to meet the needs of the creative professional. The S900's advanced architecture
combines high performance and expandability with the familiarity of the MacOS . With worry-free service (standard
3 day on-site warranty) and at a price that canT be beat, the S900 is setting new standards for an old pursuit: Art.

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Advanced Scalable Processor Design

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os desired. Costs less and is more flexible,

allowing your system to grow as you do.

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editor

Seif-policing isn't pretty, but unfortunately it's sometimes necessary,

Some people “steal” things because they
don’t understand the rules of the game.
Other people do it maliciously —
they know that what they are doing is wrong
and they do it anyway. If the theft happens in
your neighborhood, you call the police. If it
happens at your office, you call security. If the
theft involves the copyright to a valuable
invention, you call a lawyer. But if the theft
happens on the Internet,
wiffi a small file of no clear
monetary value, whom do
you call?

That’s a tough question.
Self-policing is not pretty. No
one likes to be the commu-
nity crank Yet, if someone
steals something and doesn’t
admit it, apologize, and rec-
tify the situation, then maybe
it’s time to put self-policing into action.

Is this just a general ramble about the
Internet and freedom of speech and copy-
right? No, it’s more specific than that. You
see, as much as we hate to admit it, two of
the top three entries in the sound category
of our custom-painted Power Mac contest
(Dec/96, p50) were submitted by individu-
als who did not create them. Worse, one of
the individuals was awarded the top prize.

One of the runners-up, Mike Miller,
submitted a sound that is part of Dave
Ulrich’s Wacked Sounds shareware collec-
tion. We’d love to tell you whether Mike
realized that he was violating copyright law
or not, but he’s no longer at the phone
number or address that he supplied.
Fortunately, we had not sent his runners-up
prize when we found out the truth about his
submission. We could have done many
things with the prize, for example, rejudg-
ing the contest, but we’re giving it to Dave,
a person who shared with the Mac commu-
nity, only to have his work stolen.

The far bigger issue is with the winner
of the Mac for the sound category. After the
December issue appeared, we received let-

If a file of no clear value is
stolen, whonn do you call?

ters from several folks stating that
the winning sound entry, Funky Mac,
was originally created by Eric
Hausmann and had been posted on
AOL and several BBS communities
for at least a couple of years under
the name of MacFunkee. (One of
those writing in was Jeff Click of
Clixsounds — one of his sounds.
Heavenly Welcome, had been pub-
lished on our CD under the name of
John Bassing.) Uh oh.

So, we downloaded Eric’s ver-
sion of MacFunkee and compared it
with the winning Funky Mac entry.
Identical. I asked Eric to send more
proof that the file was created by
him. Got it. Asked the winner to do
the same. Never got it.

We then explained copyright
issues to the winner — under copy-
right law, items posted online are
considered copyrighted even if the
owner has never filed for an official
copyright. He seemed to understand,
but then refused to return the Mac,
so that we could award it to Eric. In
his reasoning, MacAddict erred in
awarding him the Mac, even though
contest rules stated that entries had
to be previously unpubhshed. While
I could go on about MacAddict’s
legal rights, I won’t because that is,
in many ways, beside the point.

The real issue is the somehow
skewed reasoning that if material is
on the Internet, it’s fair game to be
used and claimed as one’s own.
There are no consequences unless
you get caught and someone initiates
legal action. Otherwise, hey, what
are you going to do to me?

That’s where self-policing comes
in. We thank those who alerted us to
the origins of the files. It seems that in
these days we need to look out for
each other. As I write this in early
December, the sound contest winner
has finally promised to return the
Mac. We hope to see it back in our
offices soon. — Cheryl England

November, we met up with Marco
liLandi, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer,
at a trade show. We didn’t have long to
chat, but we did pick Landi’s brain a bit
about what to expect from Apple in 1997.

ML: We’re entering 1997 with a totally dif-
ferent situation than in 1996. Our finances
and Inventory are under control — now we
can execute our strategy with confidence.

W/iat is Apple’s financial situation? -

Our operating expenses have dropped
almost $50 million since early 1996, Now
our expenses are at a level we can afford.
We have $1.7 billion in cash and we’ve
reduced inventory from $2 billion in early
1996 to $662 million — that’s a record low
for us for inventory versus run-rate. And
our margins are back up to 22 percent.
We’ve reduced manufacturing costs and
made efficiency improvements.

What Is your strategy for 1997?^

Segmentation^ focus, solutions, and supe-
rior value. We will focus on various market
segments such as enterprise, education,
and consumer and we will prioritize within
those segments. We will also focus on
ease-of-use, performance, compatibility,
connectivity, and industrial design.

^ ...

What is your OS strategy?

First, we’ve got to clearly identify the
solutions where we want to play. Our OS
strategy depends on this. Then we will
define the modern OS. We’re In a major
war to provide an alternative to Windows.
NT is wrong for customers. We will pro-
pose something with the Intranet that is
vastly superior.

We’ll introduce a new brand and image
campaign with a strong merchandising
program, point-of-purchase displays, bill-
boards, more training and more space in
retail outlets. We’ll have products for
$1500 to $2,000 for retail. — CE

8 MacADDICT

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perfect home or mass application PowerPC computer includes a 1.2GB hard disk drive,
an lOX CD-ROM, and 16MB (upgradable to 160MB) of RAM. The APS M*Power
603el60 also includes a mouse and extended ADB keyboard, three PCI expansion card
slots, and one available 3.5” low profile drive bay. One-year limited warranty.

603el60

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INCLUDES;

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• SVGA Monitor Port

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•16MB RAM

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17” & 21” Monitors

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• 3-PCI Expansion

•SCSI Port

• Floppy Drive

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• Rear Headphone Jack

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• 1.2GB hard drive
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1599

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Outstanding performance at a terrific price, the APS M^Power 603e200 is the bang- for- the-buck system of
choice for individual and institutional users alike. Powered by Motorola’s 200MHz PowerPC 603e processor,
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• 2-3.5" Low Profile

&21" Monitors

•16MB RAM

Internal Baysf

•SCSI Port

•1.2GB HD

• 3-PCI Expansion Slots

• 16-bit Sound

• Floppy Drive

INTERFACES

Output Port

•1MB VRAM

• Printer Port

• Rear Headphone Jack

•256KL2 Cache

• Modem Port

• Microphone Jack

• ADB Keyboard & Mouse

• ADB Port

• Desktop Case

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604e200

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1,2GB HD (IDE)

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2.5GB HD (IDE)

299.95 .

VRAM 2MB

189.95 .

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3GB HD (IDE)

399.95 .

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1.2GB HD (SCSI)

249.95 .

256KL2 Cache

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2.1GB HD (SCSI)

349.95 .

512KL2 Cache

149.95 .

lOX CD-ROM (IDE)

$99.95 .

3.2GB HD (SCSI)

499.95 .

Farallon Ethernet PCI Cards

12X CD-ROM (SCSI)

179.95

4.3GB HD (7200 rpm SCSI)

899.95 .

10Base-T|

$79.95 .

2X6 CD-R (SCSI)
4X4 CD-R (SCSI)

399.95

899.95 .

9GB HD (7200 rpm SCSI)
Monitors

1,499.95 .

lO/lOOBase-Tf
Graphic Cards

199.95 .

8X4 Disc CD-Changer (SCSI) 399.95 .

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It Ain’t So

My friend tells me that IBM
owns Apple. Is it true? Say it
ain’t so. — Julian Benneh,

Fresno, CA

Those
Mean Moms

So my 12-year-old son brings
home this magazine and says to
me, “Hey Mom, look at this cool
new magazine.” I spot the juvenile

SU^HIED

Macintosh Guru

Power User

UHndows User

Vou have echieued
Macintosh Guru status.

Thanks for pfayingl

Click OK to quit.

A Self-Made Guru

Daniel Tomasch of Millheim, Pa., sent in a whole bunch of
stuff for us, from custom icons to a file with some airline
jokes (a few were even funny). Why did he send us all of
this? Because “not to get mushy or anything, but... I love you
guys. (Sniff.)” Sounds like a suck-up to us, but nonetheless
we liked his Official Mac Guru license enough to give it this
bit of space in this month’s Issue.

GOT A MAC SIGHTING? SEND IT TO US!

graphics
on the front
and Fm think-
ing, “Oh great, another
game magazine. Now he’ll be telling me the
tips to conquering some inane game that he
intends to install on my Ethernet system. Oh,
and look here, they’ve even included a CD.”

Now I have two copies, two CDs, a paid sub-
scription, and my son doesn’t get them at all
anymore. He says, “Mean Mom.” I say, “It’s
my job.” — Cyndie L. Klopfenstein

I just got 220,000 in Apeiron, a game I
installed from one of your CDs, and I’m
pretty dam proud of myself. Not just because
of my score, but because I reclaimed my
computer as my own... See, Mom’s recently
become addicted to Apeiron, and for a while
there she was whipping my butt. But youth
has prevailed! — Matthew Phillips

I had to beg my mom for a week to
let me subscribe. She was afraid it
would make me use the computer
too much. Tell me, what’s too
much on a Mac? — ^S. Seto,
San Mateo, CA

Dude!

What’s up everybody!! Well, as you
can see, I got back on the Net! In
case you don’t remember me, I’ve
faxed you guys twice from work, that
place known as my own personal hell.
Anyway, since I last faxed Oan/97, plO), I
have been fired from the den of lawyers due
to my unprofessionalism and my blatant
attacks on their PCs. Maybe the war paint
and battle cries were a bit too much, or
maybe they didn’t appreciate the fact that I
was scalping my victims. Then again, it
might be all the stickers I posted, or the fact
that I would run down the hall screaming, “I
hate this place! Long live Apple! Long live the
Mac!” Anyway, I’ve been sent back to the
streets to once again run wild with my fellow
bike messengers. To live a life of freedom, to
fly like the wind, and to run over as many
scum-sucking yuppies as possible!

Fm off to Venice Beach right now, but as
always, you guys rule, and also... Please give
me a job! Later! — ^Reuben E. Reynoso
Um, Reuben, this may come as a surprise,
but we all kind of expected something like
this might happen...

OK, We Hedged

A friend is interested in buying a Performa
6400/200 and running Finale, a music com-
position application. I’d like to find out wbat
kinds of specialized software won’t run on
603 systems, and if this application is one of
them. — Jay Harris

When we said that some specialized soft-
ware might work only on 604 ^sterns, we
were hedging our bets. The PowerPC 604
processor includes some instructions that
a 603 does not, so there is some tiny
chance that some odd application might
require a 604 instead of a 603.

14 MacADDICT

Rest assured, however, that mainstream
applications such as Finale will run on
any flavor of PowerPC chip.

GOSH DARN IT!

The review of Fractal Design Expression
(Dec/96, p64) was actually a preview of the
product and was written using an early
beta version. The preview should have
been marked as such and the program
should not have been rated. The preview
should have also noted that some problems
such as slowness could be attributed to the
fact that Expression was still in beta.
Terribly sorry for the confusion— look for a
review of the shipping version in an
upcoming issue and on our Web site.

Oh, Please
Calm Down

Hi. My name is Eric. Um... Fm a... Mac
addict. I didn’t think it was true... gasp... but
it is... I am addicted (sob). I really thought I
could handle it, until I went to the bookstore
after having seen the November issue
online... and what should my ears hear but
the fateful “death chime” of the clerk saying,
“Sorry, we no longer have that issue.”

WHAT!? I have to have it! The guy in the
cubicle next to me at work has one, but he
won’t share his CD — something about
catching a virus. I had the shakes last night.
Fm hurting real bad. My wife asked if there
was something wrong. I said, “Nothing,
it’ll be OK.” But it’s not.

Oh, the thrill of exploring the CD, the
panache of the articles and relevance to my
needs. I was thinking of buying a 3D app and
saw the issue — “Perfect
timing as usual!” I said to
myself. “I will take my
hard-earned cash and
retrieve this cool yet viable
periodical.” But noooo! I
think the clerk had a judg-
mental glint in his eye as I
staggered out of the store.

Today, I finally found a
telephone cord that is long
enough to reach out the
window so I could send
you this before I jump.

Hmmm... Someone is shouting something.
They have set up an inflatable cushion... prob-
ably to catch the PowerBook! I just cannot go
on without my November issue (sob).
Please... please... whatever it takes! I have to
have my wrapped-in-plastic mag and CD!
Please respond, let me know someone out

there cares. — ^Eric Brown

Go Quickly!

In the November issue (pl02), someone
wanted to know where to find Oscar The
Grouch, an “outlawed file.” The response
said it was “pulled from distribution.” This
is untrue! The file was only pulled from
Info-Mac sites. It can be found at other Mac
sites such as <ftp;//ftp.funet.fl/pub/mac/
sysext/grouch.sit>. — ^Todd S. Meyer,
SCIOTA, PA

As of October 12, 1996, Oscar The Grouch
was still at <http://www.eskimo.com/
~pristine/softindex.html> .

— ^Bob Longstreath

You'll have to go to these sites quickly,
before Oscar disappears from them, too!

Huh?

I’m quite disturbed that when I see a piece of
software that says “Requires 386 and
Windows 3.1 or better” it won’t run on my
Quadra 610. Any ideas? — Ira Lieman,
Hoboken, NJ

Hey, guess what? Of the many uses for the
Mighty Macintosh, my personal favorite is
“Geek-Off.” Just thou^t you’d like to know.
— John Moore IV, Virginia Beach, VA

I just wanted you to know that I think I like
rats. — ^Paul

True Inspiration

Look, I drew a picture in Microsoft
nerd. I mean Word. — Joey Cooper, 12,
Middletown, IN

Yeah, we've always been impressed with
Word's drawing features, too...

The art that Word inspired. Watch out— Word’s
Auto Correct tool will straighten all those curves.

MacAddict has inspired me to change the
“Welcome to Macintosh” greeting during
startup to “Macs Rule, PCs Drool” via
ResEdit. — ^Wiuy Rivet

PEMeMlt

^ AN UNABASHED SWIPE AT WINDOWS 95,

; SUNG TO THE MELODY OF

I ALANIS MORISSETTE’S “IRONIC”

!Vs a Microsoft product

that claims to be great

But like its predecessor

it’s just second rate

Uke OS/2

it has a similar fate

It’s a graphic in-ter-face

about 12 years too late

\ Yes, Windows is demonic

. . . don’t you think?

; Chorus:

j They want you to beiieve that it works like a Mac
Although it was designed by someone high on crack
If Windows 95 could simply fade into black
The world would be sooooooo much better. . .

He bought an IBM clone

’cause he liked the low price

It came with Win 95

to add a tittle bit o’ spice

He hit the Return key

(That was a roll of the dice!)

; As his system crashed down,

he said, "Well, this isn’t nice!"

Yes, Windows is demonic

... don’t you think?

[Repeat Chorus]

It’s a simple subterfuge
this Win 95

Its hype is so thick you

can cut it with a knife

If you’d bought a Mac the first time,
you wouldn’t have this strife

i (Spoken)

I If you want the machine of your dreams,

‘ you’d better get a clue, not a life

Yes, Windows is demonic

. . . don’t you think?

A littlejoojiemonic

and I really do think

[Repeat Chorus]

[Shut Down]

[Power Off]

Lyrics © 1996 Robert Hanson. All rights reserved.
However:

Dealer participation may affect final consumer cost.
Your mileage may vary.

I Certain conditions & restrictions may apply; ask your
sales consultant for details.

I See your dentist twice a year.

And don’t forget to put the seat down when you’re done!

15 MacADDICT

letters

the disc

Now, more fonts per megabyte than your average high-fiber breakfast cereal,

Take a tour through
Timelapse, Phototools,
Pajama Sam, and Mega
Math Blasters! There are
links to the vendors’ Web
sites, tool

THIS ISSUE

Turn to this screen to
find programs and files
mentioned in the magazine.
Whenever you see a disc
icon in print, you’ll know to
come here on the CD.

Here’s where you’ll
find enough shareware
and freeware to satisfy
even the most demanding
hard disk’s appetite. Come
here to turn your machine
into a big Mac!

Betcha didn’t know that the
Internet was powered by
pyramids. Turn here to link
to MacAddict’s Web site.

This helpful screen
is available on all
five major screens.
All controls are
carefully explained.

Use this handy jumping
point to get to any other
screen on The Disc.

SHAREWARE

INDEX

YOU asked for it— you got it
You asked for tons of
fonts and we are
happy to oblige. Go to the
“This Issue” section, dial up
highlights, and gasp In awe
at the cornucopia of faces.
Anything else? Icons, clip art, the
moon? Write to letters@macaddlct.
com and we’ll see what we can do.
Oh, yeah, just don’t click on any
MacAddict logos. Curiosity killed
the cat, you know.

In Pop The Disc into your
CD-ROM drive.

2. Double-click the Start Here
icon for your System.

3. Have fun!

REQUIREMENTS

Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and
System software from the Finder. Accessing the full
CD-ROM interface requires 12MB of real RAM with
System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System
7.5 or later.

16 MacADDiCT

To get immediate information
from our sponsors, go to the
index {Option-click any help
screen). Or you can wait until you
see a message from a sponsor in
the lower-light-hand comer of the
main screen. Clicking on the mes-
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down from the top of the page,
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Sponsors can also be accessed
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MacPiay— MacPiay Catalog

800-4MACPLAY
http://www.macplay.com
Star Ti*ek Starlteet Academy— With
Captain Kirk, Chekov, and Sulu as
your Starfleet Academy instructors,
you and your crew will battle over 30
menacing 3D-rendered alien ships
in the first-ever STAR TREK flight
simulator. Are you bold enough?
PrO'PInbatl — Rnally, a Mac pinball
geme that goes beyond the arcade
experience. It has everything you
want: realistic flippers, ramps,
loops, drop targets, grab magnets,
sink holes, jet bumpers, and, of
course, realistic balls.

Descent II — Blast your way past
enemy robots with powerful new
tools, leaving their flaming hulks in
your exhaust. It’s all-new levels of
outrageous destruction, with new
weapons and enemiesi Power
Mac required.

Bungle— Marathon Infinity

800-295-0060

http://www.bungie.com

Marathon Infinity contains
“Blood Tides of Lh’owon," a brand-
new 30-level scenario, “Forge,"
Bungle's own powerful Map Editor,
and “Anvil," a single tool for easy
modification of shapes, sounds,
and physics models.

Changeling— Amber

^Changeling

800-769-2768

http://www.changling.com

Journey into the unknown,
exploring supernatural realms of
extraordinary beauty and haunting
elegance. Unravel mysteries hidden
vwfriin compelling stories of heart-
numbing tragedy, mind-numbing
obsession, and c^ild-like innocence.
With amazingly life-like images,
subtle environmental sounds, a
compelling soundfrack, and thor-
oughly developed characters and
stories, /Vnber. Journeys Beyond
will completely immerse you in the
experience of several lifetimes.

MacSaft— Prime Target
800-229-2714

A powerful senator is brutally
murdered while working late In her
Washington, D.C. office. Now you
must solve the mystery of her
death in this action-packed 3D
shoot-’em-up. Prime Target thrusts
you into the most dynamic Mac
gaming world ever. Blood spatters
on the wall. Glass shatters in your
face. And the interactive mystery
challenges your intellect as you
hunt the senator’s killers in
Washington’s conridors of power.

PowerProductlon— WahBurst

webburst

800-457-0383

http://www.powerproduction.com
WebBurst gives the Internet a
facelift! It puts a new wave into
surfing the Net. Interactive sound
and motion can now be experi-
enced with any Java-enabled
browser. And it’s drag-and-drop-
easy to create. No coding, no
compiling necessary! Just add it to
your existing Web page.

Eupopa Software— Web Quick

Sonic Desktop Solutions—

^^europA

SmaptSound Fop Multimedia

http://www.europasoftware.com

Frustrated by Bookmarks?
Web Quick tracks every page
you visit, and automatically
organizes the page list by Site. It
lets you create custom Topics —
and keeps them all at your fin-
gertips with handy pop-up
menus. Web Quick even con-
verts existing Bookmarks. No
wonder MacWEEK calls it “the
first Web utility that is essential”!

GT IntBPaclIve— ZPC

800-454-1900

http://www.sonicdesktop.com
Now you can quickly create
music or sound effects customized
to your exact specifications. This
revolutionary new software makes
the job easy while always giving you
professional results. Try the demo
on the enclosed CD and you'll see
why SmartSound is the /Absolute
Easiest Way To Create Customized
Professional Quality Soundtracks.

http://www.gtinteractive.com

ZPC places the player
as Arman, a fourth-generation
Psionic War Messiah recently
released from cryogenic imprison-
ment. With no memory of his
illustrious heritage, Arman has few
clues to his true mission: save his
people, vanquish the evil occult
group known as the Black
Brethren, and utterly destroy the
Dark Being they worship. Only
then can he reclaim his Psionic
crown and unite his followers.

Westwood Studios— Westwood Chat

800-874-4607

http://www.westwood.com

Need a place to find other Mac
gamers!? Try out the new
Macintosh version of Westwood
Chat— the program that lets you
talk with other gamers around the
world in real-timel And with the new
Internet-ready games by Westwood
Studios, you'll be able to challenge
people all over the planet to great
games like Monopoly and
Command & Conquer!

K you encouitter arty probiems with the
Shareware you are about to ittsfall, please
contact the (ollowtag company:

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^Amazing digital audio software: BIAS Peak!

Dastardly Tom Hale scrambled
Max into 16 pieces! (The
nerve of some people;) Help Max
screw on his head right. Pop in the.
CD-ROM and look for a secret
hotspot. You’ll be automagicaffy
transported to a hidden area of
The Disc. When you solve the
puzzle, the CD-ROM vvf(l give you
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Web site where you can order
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to help you.

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with one of the programs on our
disc, please be sure to read the
accompanying read me for contact
Info. To make It easier for you to
find help for the programs on The
Disc, we’ve conveniently added
e-mail and Web contacts in the
Shareware and This Issue sec-
tions. Whenever you click on
install, you’ll find the following
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LET'S MAKE
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text over an image, and
change its attributes. Before
placing the text, you can add
more text, deselect it, and
reselect the first bit. Amazing!

Also on The Disc

In addition to these four
demos, you’ll find nine more
demos on The Disc. They are
not accessible from our inter-
face, though. You’ll need to
open up the Demos folder in the
finder. Along with productivity
tools, the mega-cool Disc also
contains demos of two more
children’s programs.

The demo of Just Me and
My Mom offers the first page of
this popular children’s book.
Little Critter narrates his trip to
the city with Mom. See Little
Critter buy train tickets to the
city. Watch out for the froggie!

In this demo of Elroy’s
Costume Closet you can
clothe Elroy in just about any
costume.

Choices range
from a busy
bee to a
freaked out
frog to a noble
Knight. Elroy
offers snappy
commentary as
you dress him.

This month’s Disc
features music created
by MacAddict readers.
Gregory Brettell and Laura
Lopez created tracks one
(Obsession) and two (I
Know You Really Wanna)
on a llsi. Seventeen-year-
old Chuck Latshaw made
tracks three (Lunatic) and
four (Groove Train) on a
Performa 550. Would you
like to see your name in
lights? Send your record-
ings and a photo (in any
digital format— no tape
cassettes, please) to: Music
Mavens, MacAddict, 150
North Hill Drive, Brisbane,
CA, 94005. If we like it, we’ll
use it on a future Disc.
Please do not send us the
theme to the Simpsons! All
recordings must be your
own original material which
you made from scratch and
haven’t yet published. You
do retain all rights to your
work and just give us
permission to use it on The
Disc. Your music, of course,
should be made on a Mac!

AND THE

Claris Home Page

Jason Denonville from
Florida decoded No-
vember’s CD-ROM contest.
He’ll be creating Web sites
galore with his
new copy of
Claris Home
Page. Turn
back to page
17 to read all
about your
chance win
BIAS Peak.

2. Timelapse

Timelapse will transport you
to exotic places. You’ll need to
solve puzzles in the pyramids,
make mincemeat of the

What’s a plug-in folder
without plug-ins? What’s a
Mac app without palettes? Add
Extensis Photoshop plug-ins
and see what a difference a
few smart tools can make.
PhotoText alone is enough to
make any Photoshop-head’s
jaw drop in awe: you can place

20 MacADDfCT

Mega Math Blasters is an
out-of-this-worid way to learn
math while pretending to be a
space hero. This non-interactive
demo will give you a taste of the
many brain teasers available in
this title. Each game helps your
children build their math skills.
Stop Gelator before he takes
over the galaxy!

4. PhotoTools

Adjust Color- B«...

Demos are versions of
commercial products that
are not fully functional. Play
them directly from The Disc, or
copy them to your hard disk.
This month we bring you a
plethora of children’s software
demos. If you want to escape
out of a demo, usually typing
cmd-. (period) will return you to
our application.

1. Pajama Sam

I In “No Need To Hide When
It’s Dark Outside,’’ It’s your job
to help Pajama Sam find his
flashlight and lunchbox so he
can capture darkness and put
him in the lunchbox. The demo
has four different sites to
explore. Each site has a puzzle
to solve and has plenty of
wacky objects for kids (and
grown-ups) to click on. The first
time you play the demo it will
test your CD drive for speed.
Turn to our review (p89) to see
what the kids thought.

3. Mega Math
Blasters

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program), you could do one
of two things: scream at your
Mac and pull your hair out, or
take a screenshot of your
desktop, open it in your
image-editing program, then
use the eyedropper tool to
find the right pixel, and finally
open up the color picker to
get the value. Oh, you wanted
that for the Web? You’ll need a
conversion tool, too.

Pixel Spy saves you from
either of these horrendous
options. With the program
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telescope spying on the pixels
that comprise the screen
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displays the pixel’s RGB (red,
green, blue), HSV (hue, satu-
ration, vector), CMY (cyan.

magenta, yellow) values. The
program converts the RGB
value into hex code, simplify-
ing your Web-editing life. Also
for the inner Webmaster in all
of us is a color matcher, which
picks the color in Navigator’s
palette closest to the chosen
color. This prevents your
image from dithering when
displayed in a Web browser.

STEFAN'S

SHAREWARE

SELECTIONS

This close to the date of a
new system release — Mac OS
7.6 — it’s a little dangerous to
recommend system utilities.
There’s a good chance that
something will break —
system utilities expect the
Mac OS to behave in a certain
way, and if the system
changes, all hell could break
loose. That’s not to say that
utilities will definitely break,
but to ward against this possi-
bility, we’ve included several
similar utilities that perform
pretty much the same func-
tion. If one of the utilities
breaks under Mac OS 7.6 and
the author doesn’t release an
update, these other utilities
can take its place.

Many programs have a
“Window” menu, from which
the available open windows
can be selected. Having a
menu devoted to switching
between windows is very
useful, especially when the
window that you want is
buried under several others
and you have a smaller moni-
tor. This feature is so useful
that when a program doesn’t

have one, it is sorely missed.
Fortunately, there are utilities
which add a universal Window
menu to all applications,
even to the Finder.

WIndowMenu is a share-
ware control panel/extension
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using a pop-up menu as shown
here, or via the keyboard.

If pop-up menus and key-
board commands aren’t your
thing, Gaspod and WinMenu
are two utilities that add a new
menu icon next to the Guide
menu. KantaraWinMenu does
the same with all OpenDoc
parts. — Stefan Anthony

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Once you’ve learned how to
cast type (“Facing Up to Fonts,”
p36), pop in The Disc. Along
with the following fonts, there
are several utilities which will
help you manage these fonts.
You’ll also find a demo of
Fontographer so you can follow
along with Nikki Echler’s ‘Just
your Type” tutorial (p48).

How To

In “How to Add Sound to a
Web Page” (p96), contributing
editor Joe Holmes walks you
through making a sound for
your Web site. To play it back
in your browser, though, you
need to set up a helper app.
We’ve included the utilities
Sound App and Sound
Machine mentioned in this
article. Just installing them on
your machine is not enough —
you’ll need to tell your browser
where they are. Here’s how to
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browser’s folder, unless we
use them for something else,
too. Launch Navigator.

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on the helpers tab.
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As we put pen to paper,
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stages of the MacAddict site
redesign, hoping with all our
rriight that it’ll be live and kick-
ing by the time you read last
month’s issue. We hope you’ll
be pleased with the results.

Apple Software:
New & Improved

Our December roundup of
Apple software locations
focused on Apple’s multitudi-
nous FTP (file) servers. But
soon after the issue saw
print, Apple’s tireless software
gnomes repaired and upgraded
the once-rickety Web interface
to its software libraries. Through
an ingenious array of CGIs and
scripts, this Web-based inter-
face divvies up traffic among
Apple’s various FTP servers.

As a starting point, consult
the list of software update
mirror sites. At the top of the
screen are buttons which show
you the most recently
posted files and let
you browse Apple’s
software library.
Recently added
are a search fea-
ture and an alpha-
betical listing, avail-
able in both U.S. and
international flavors.
Even cooler is the Apple
Featured Items page, which
brings together download
links and Tech Info Library
documentation for Apple’s
latest, greatest software
updates. From the System
7.5.5 Update to Open
Transport/PPP 1 .0, from
Cyberdog 1.1 to the Daily
Information Alley, it’s all here
on this one handy page.

A GOOD PLACE TO START:
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More News
Than You Can Use

Like most Mac addicts with
Internet access and an uncon-
trollable itch to surf, the advent
of the World Wide Web has
turned us into ravening-mad
news junkies. At the
MacAddict Web site, we strive
to highlight the most important
or Interesting news, cramming
in links and pointers to the very
latest software updates or
other scandalous revelations.

Let’s say you want more.
More news, more super-
obscure software updates,
more obscure little bugs and
all the rumor-mongering your
eyes can take in, all of it piped
into your browser as soon
as It comes off the virtual
presses. Where do the really
hardcore Mac news addicts
park their browsers?

For in-depth news analysis,
it’s hard to beat “MacWEEK.”
The venerable weekly maga-
zine now publishes stories daily
on its Web site. Editorial frills
such as copyediting and fact-
checking sometimes keep
“ MacWEEK” ’s coverage a few
hours behind other sites, but
when it finally weighs In It’s
worth the wait. We do wish
they’d shut up about Be for a
little while, though.

Another top-notch produc-
tion is MDJ, “The Daily Journal
for Serious Macintosh Users.”
This subscription-based news-
letter is delivered to your mail-
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$14.95 a month, but you can try
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If it’s troubleshooting and
bug reports you’re after, make
a daily visit to MacFixIt
and MacInTouch every day.
MacFixIt started as an online
update to Ted Landau’s
book “Sad Macs, Bombs and
Other Disasters,” but like
Frankenstein’s monster It’s
taken on a life of its own and
has become the premier place
to find out about potential
problems and their solutions.
RIc Ford’s MacInTouch Home
Page is a bit more general
in focus — as
well as cover-
ing the trou-
bleshooting
beat, the well-
connected
columnist and
consultant is
privy to tons of
gossip and
up-to-the-
minute info.

FORGET THE TIP-thls is the iceberg.
More Mac news links than any one
human being could digest.

If after all this, your lust for
news remains unsated, perhaps
you’re ready for the raw,
unfiltered news-mania of
MacSurfer’s Headline News.
Here you’ll find pointers to
everything — every scrap of
Mac-related news published
anywhere on the Web. It’s a
senses-shattering barrage of
sheer data, an effort that inspires
both awe at the staff members’
thoroughness and sincere
concern for their sanity. —MS

Since we removed our
fake browser and
replaced it with one that
could actually follow
links, we decided it was
time to give the LiveWire
section a facelift. Come
here for the Apple News,
Updated Software, and a
Sneak Preview of next
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Let’s dispense with all the tired music
metaphors and get right to the
point: Harmony has a name, and it
is Mac OS 7.6. And it’s going to be
here soon. So is it a big deal? Should you
care? It depends on what you want out of an
operating system. If you want OpenDoc,
improved reUabiUty, easier installation, and
better extensions management, Mac OS 7.6
is for you. If, however, your Mac is not 32-
bit clean or has a processor slower than a
68030, you’re out of luck — Mac OS 7.6
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Book 100) . Mac OS 7.6 also won’t work on
PowerPC platform (aka CHRP) computers.

Mac OS 7.6 is the first step on the road
to OS 8. As such, it doesn’t do much. None
of the buzzwords — not appearance man-
ager, preemptive multitasl^g, or memory
protection — made it into this release. What
did make it in, however, is pretty spi%.

Mac OS 7.6 automatically installs Open-
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which is a big plus for Live Object
developers. Now they’re assured that the
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Mac OS 7.6 is supposed to be stable,
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fixes and adding some new ones to keep
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improved file manager cache, and Power-
PC resource manager to give your Mac a
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Mac OS 7.6 also includes a one-stop
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file, allows you to update hard disk drivers,
runs Disk First Aid, and then allows you to
install Mac OS 7.6 and any other extras
(such as Cyberdog or QuickDraw GX) all in
the same program. Just launch the installer,
follow the four steps, and go have some
coffee and a bagel. Your new software will
be installed when you get back.

An improved Extensions Manager
(version 4.0) will give Casady & Greene’s
Conflict Catcher some competition. It can
organize extensions by “package” (that is,
it groups extensions by the program that
installed them) and allows you to turn on
and off all extensions belonging to a par-
ticular program. This little ability is useful

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INSTALLING MAC OS 7.6 Is as easy as 1, 2, 3,
4 with Apple’s new installer.

if you want to see what owns that Text
Encoding Converter extension.

Mac OS 7.6 also lists the following
among its bonuses: improved desktop
printers and printing dialog boxes,
PowerPC-native LaserWriter 8.4 software,
new DataViz MacLinkPlus translators,
enhanced PC Exchange for Windows 95,
PlainTalk 1.5, OT/PPP 1.0, and multi-
processor support. Mac OS 7.6 is a System
software release (as opposed to an update,
as was System 7.5.5), which means it’s
going to cost money. How much, Apple
hasn’t said. — DR

28 MacADDfCT

SMOKIN’

AND SCREAMING FAST

Remember, oh, three, four years
ago, when a 25MHz processor in a
Mac seemed fast? Try multiplying that
by 20 and stand back, mister. Tliat’s what
Exponential did with its new X704 PowerPC-
compatible chip. This screamer comes in
three speeds — 466MHz, 500MHz, and
533MHz — and it’s coming to a Mac near you
sometime in the next six months.

Exponential says that the X704 is
completely PowerPC instruction- and bus-
compatible, which means this chip can be
put in Macs (with just a few tweaks to- the
power supply’s voltage level and a big fan)
and will run the Mac OS and Mac applica-
tions just like a regular PowerPC chip — only
faster. No special system needed. Exponen-
tial hcensed the PowerPC architecture from
IBM in early 1996, and the company has
been working closely with Apple.

To help bust bus bottlenecks, the X704
has two different kinds of cache on the chip
that make sure the processor always has
something to chew on. The first is a pair of
2K caches, one for instructions and one for
data; the second is a 32K unified cache. The
chip can take advantage of Level 2 cache fike
today’s PowerPC chips.

Mthough Exponential has made Macin-

► o

tosh its number-one priority, other technolo-
gies will be able to blaze alongside the Mac
OS. Windows NT should be able to run on
the X704 as it does on other PowerPC chips,
and Exponential says that PPCP computers
should work fine with the chip as well. The
company has also been in talks with Be,
Inc., so don’t be surprised to see the Be OS
humming happily along at 500MHz.

All this speed won’t come cheap. The
chips are expected to sell for about $1,000
each, compared with $520 for a 200MHz
Motorola 604e. Mac systems running the
X704 are expected to ship by July. Imagine
showing off a multiprocessor Mac running
four 533MHz X704 processors to your Pen-
tium Pro friends who top out at 200MHz.
Won’t they be impressed? — DR

CLEAN UP THE
KENNEL TO WIN
ALADDIN’S
SPRINC CLEANING

Yowza! These poor dogs have
escaped the kennel and can’t find their
way home. Can you name the Macin-
tosh mascots so we can return them to
their owners? Of course, with all those
dogs cooped up in one place, you’ll
need a copy of Aladdin Systems’

Spring Cleaning to clean up the mess.
For your chance to win, enter on our
Web site, or snail mail your entry to
Mixed-up Mascot, MacAddict, 1 50 North
Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. We will
pick a winner at random from correct
entries received by February 15, 1997.

1 . Freelance (MVP Solutions' Retrieve It!)

2. Webster, your Web Buddy (DataViz)

3. Cyberdog (Apple)

4. Clarus (Apple Developer Tech Support)

5. Ling Ling (Bungie)

6. Sammy (Cheryl England)

Clones of Clones

b.^

It’s enough to drive a person
positively batty trying to
keep up with new Mac
OS-compatible computer makers.
PowerTools, a Texas-based com-
pany that has been manufacturing
PowerPC accelerator boards for
more than a year, reached an
agreement with Motorola to
sublicense the Mac OS and pur-
chase Tanzania motherboards
(co-developed by Motorola and
Apple) to build its own Mac
compatibles. The new crop of

These replicants
last longer than
six years.

Macs — titled the Infiniti series
— ^will be available in two vari-
eties: a build-your-own box and a
fully configured box.

The three build-your-own-
box Infiniti clones will include
a tower case, the motherboard,
and a floppy disk drive. Similar
to the build-your-own scheme
from APS, PowerTools will pro-
vide boxes without a hard drive
or any RAM installed, so they’re
ideal for anyone who already has
these components or who can
get them cheaply. The four
unconfigured clones are pretty
reasonable: a l60MHz 603e-
based Infiniti at $899, a 200MHz
603e-based Infiniti at $1,099, a
l60MHz 604e-based InMti at
$1,499, and a 200MHz 604e-
based Infiniti at $1,499.

PowerTools will also sell
three Infiniti bundles, more
familiar to traditional Mac
buyers. The Smart Bundle, for
$1,399, features a l60MHz
603e, 16MB of RAM, a 1.3GB
hard drive, and 2MB of VRAM.
The $2,449 Pro Bundle features
a 200MHz 604e, 24MB of RAM,
a 2.5GB hard drive, 512K of L2
cache, and 2MB of VRAM. The
Elite Bundle features a 200MHz
604e, 32MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard
drive, 512K of Level 2 cache,
Yamaha external speakers, and a
33.6Kbps internal modem.

All of PowerTools’ bundles
include an 8X CD-ROM, a key-
board, and a mouse, and all
come in a minitower base. They
also feature four 3V^-inch and
three 5V4-inch drive bays, three

DIMM slots, five PCI slots, VRAM
upgradable to 4MB, an SVGA
monitor port (sorry, Macintosh

monitor owners; you’ll have to
buy an adapter), an ADB port, a
PS/2 port, and the ability to
upgrade to multiple processors.
The Infiniti line also includes a
one-year warranty, an optional
extended warranty, and a free
upgrade to Mac OS 7.6.

PowerTools expected to start
shipping units in mid- to late
December 1996, with bulk pro-
duction starting in early 1997.
Call PowerTools at 800-891"
4307 or go to <http://www.pwr
tools.com>. — DR

IT HAD TO HAPPEN

MacADDlCT 29

get info

One of th0 original ctIgJtat document
programs has added a slew of new
(mostly tnternet-relaled) features,
including forms (complete with pop-
up lists and radio buttons), the
ability to embed PDF files in an
HTML page, and dynamic controls
that can link to movies. Acrobat also
includes progressive rendering and
page-at-a-time downloading to help ;;
speed up Internet-related PDF files.

.mi

Anarch te, a Macintosh FTP client, ; ■
has had its first revision. Additions
include the ability to upload and
download folders, a new search
mechanism (for those hard-to-find
files over the Internet), interface
improvements, an updated Anarchie
Guide, and a Tips feature to help
you get the most out of your
FTP time.

get info

Hoo-jit Think It Was?

We thought the “Identify the Hoojit”
contest in our November 1996 issue
(p27) was sure to be a stumper. We
were pleasantly surprised by the number of
Mac addicts who blew the gadget’s raison
d’etre. Of course, there
were also a number of
you who had no clue
^despite the horrendous
pun in the contest rules).
In keeping with the
MacAddict tradition of rewarding
ignorance if offset by creativity, we give space
to the following amusing and bizarre answers:
Stuart Ward called the hoojit a chunk of
metal with paint. Well, so is an automobile.
Jeff Vincent was one of several people who
decided the hoojit was a monitor squeegee —
don’t try that at home, kids.

Readers who resorted to Nikki’s clue on
The Disc generally did not get far. The key was
the tool she used to open her soda can — a
Torx screwdriver. On older, all-in-one Macs
such as the Plus or SE, iipple used special six-
sided screws to hold the Mac together. This
design was intended to prevent the more
curious among

More than just a us from mo eas-

ily getting our

Chunk of metal... heads Uown off

by the built-in
monitor’s capacitor. The Torx screwdriver
Nikki used to open her soda fits into those

special screws. After removing the screws,
you use the hoojit to spread apart the case.
With a Torx screwdriver and the hoojit, you
can crack the case of any classic Mac.

Several readers gave us low-tech solutions
if you don’t have the hoojit. Tom Vermilion
uses a karate chop method, in which the vic-
tim Mac is set face down on a bench after the
case screws are removed and is given a
mighty chop on both sides of the case. John
Christie prefers a couple of well-placed sharp
raps, which make him feel like the Fonz. Greg
Thorny uses the mysterious Lucille, who has

November’s Mystery Revealed

the ‘most natural, long, strong fingernails.’

Kee Nethery — ^who identified the hoojit —
also guessed that it was included with the
Micah internal hard drive for the Mac Plus.
Micah might have included one, but sorry,
Kee, this particular hoojit was included in a
32-piece Curtis computer toolkit. Along with a
soldering iron, the toolkit also included a
spring claw useful for removing the locator
implanted in your brain by aliens.

Peter Wright was the lucky winner drawn
from the pool of correct entries. Peter will be
adding an SMB DIMM to his Power Mac 8500,
courtesy of Newer Technology (a company
with a sense of humor, we might add) . Find the
list of runners-up on our Web site. — KT

What a Character

SPEAK IT, don’t type IT

SO what do you do when your language
has more than 6,000 characters and
you want to write a letter? Design a
really big keyboard and buy ftitures in key
switches? Well, you could, but if the language
you want to enter into your Mac is Chinese,
you can drop $165 on Apple’s Advanced
Chinese Input Suite and be set.

This new pack-

Apple continues to age consists of four

, components: the

improve its speech- Chinese Dictation Kit

, . 1.5, the Chinese

recognition offerings. Handwriting Kit 1.0,

the Chinese Text-To-Speech 1,0.2, and the
Apple Dictation Microphone. After a few
weeks of practice with Ae Chinese Dictation
Kit, MandW speakers can enter up to 80
characters per minute — ^just by speatog. The
Chinese Handwriting Kit 1.0 allows users to
enter either simplified or traditional Chinese
characters using a Mac-compatible graphics
tablet, or even a mouse. The input suite also
uses Text-to-Speech so users can have their
Macs read selected Chinese text back to them.
Meanwhile, Apple continues to improve
its speech-recognition offering for Western
Mac users with the PlainTalk 1.5 package.

English speech recognition now works on
every PowerPC-based Mac — ^including
previously unsupported PowerBooks and
Performas — ^with a l6-bit microphone and
System 7.5 or later. Take advantage of the new
Talking Alerts option, and the voice of your
choice will enunciate the contents of alert
messages. Imagine, if you will, the sweet
sound of Zarvox intoning “Printer needs
attention.” An upgraded Speakable Items util-
ity and a passel of speech-recognition bug
fixes and reliability improvements round out
the package. It’s available free from <htlp://
www.speech.^ple.com/ptk>. — DR and MS

30 MacADDICT

Easy Web Publishing!

Drag & l^p to Create Your Own Home Page

“Foolproof Web Design” MACWORLD “Elegant Interface” M A C U S E R

Frame It!

Point & click to select & size
frames. Drag & drop to put
content Into frames.

Picture It!

Drag & drop Images from
Presto! PageManager or
Netscape Navigator™.

Copy/Paste It!

Copy & paste text from any
Macintosh application.

Video It!

Drag & drop QuickTime™
videos & sound clips directly
into your web documents and
watch them play online.

File Edit fliign Font Size Styie Speciai

Limited

Time

Offer!

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Only .dC.

Browse It!

Edit & browse HTML pages
on your hard disk or network.

Drag & Drop Links! —

Make a link by dragging &
dropping a file icon.

Safliagmp

- This summer we took a 2-week vacation...
We found a small restaurant in the middle of
nowhere that makes great margaritas...

Click here to see our home |

I ► Surprise Birthday Party

Family Reunion

Other liink^ to;

My Sister's Home Page
My Bs8t Fgientfa.Homg-Eage

Netscape Friendly!

Grab images, links and
bookmarks directly from
Netscape Navigator™.

And More!

Additional features include
Multi-level Undo, font selec-
tion, foreign tags & more.

Parlez-vous Fran9ais?

Localize your copy of Presto!
Personal Page in English,
French, German & Spanish.

Build It!

Presto! Personal Page builds
your site, organizes your
pages (ready for upload) and
even checks for broken links.

-Site-Wide Find &
Replace!

Misspell a word - on different
pages? Presto! Personal Page
lets you find & replace words
throughout your entire site.

WYSIWYG!

What you see Is exactly what
your web page looks like with
Presto! Personal Page.

Has this happened to you?

You have a great idea for
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Or you’ve started writing
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If you’ve never created a
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cravings

cfavinqs

Not your everyday releases — outta-sight play, work, and fun stuff — six of them!

David

I Wild Planet Toys

Wild Planet

What Mac would be complete without
its own complement of very cool
toys? Although not specifically meant for the Mac, these
diversions are so much in the spirit of using a Mac that we
had to include them. Being a Mac fanatic is often an adventur-
ous pursuit in these days of Windows and Intel, but you can

prepare for survival by equipping yourself with Wild
IN THE TRUE MAC SPIRIT. Planet Toys. Wild Planet has seen fit to create the

Megascope microscope and telescope, the Signal Glove
secret code communicator, the Supersonic Ear long-distance microphone, the Trek Pack
utility belt, and the Beast Blaster foam creature glider. For engineers on a program bug
search-and-destroy mission, Wild Planet offers Bugscapes mini bug houses and the Bug
Catcher, which lets you catch bugs without touching them (especially nasty in C++).

To get Into the spirit of adventure, call 800-247-6570,

You Don’t Know Jack, Vol. 2

Berkeley Systems

SO you think you know something, huh? Think you’re smart. Yeah, reeeal smart. Bet
you shout out answers while watching ‘Jeopardy.” When was the last time someone
was willing to play Trivial Pursuit with you? The folks at Berkeley Systems know your
kind, and they’ll play with you. They’re betting that you love to field clever questions,
make collect calls to celebrities such as Tim Allen, Nell

Carter, and Erik Estrada (don’t forget to ask about his PUT ALEX TREBEC TO SHAME,

partner), and take mild verbal abuse. If this is you, fork over

$40 for You Don’t Know Jack Volume 2, which features the full force of Jellyvision’s wit. If
you played the original, you know the humor; If not, you’ll find out that maybe you don’t
know everything about everything. For a little intellectual humbling, call 510-540-5535, or
surf over to <http://www.berksys.com>— if you can figure out a Web browser, ya simp.

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I Shoot People

House of Freaks

Spring Cleaning

Aladdin Systems

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phone books, and you stare at it, knowing that inside is a
request that you to haul off all those cars In your yard. If you
ignore It, maybe it’ll go away. Aladdin Systems can’t help you

with that (although It may be

CLEAN THE DUST OUT OF THAT DRIVE. able to give you the number of a good lawyer), but it can help you clear the digital equivalent off of

your hard drive. Spring Cleaning (formerly LaundroMac) is an uninstaller that also removes dupli-
cate files, unused fonts, and orphaned help files, and puts a real shine on the of Preferences folder by getting rid of those files that
you don’t need. Spring Cleaning also finds and reattaches orphaned aliases and trims fat applications of their redundant code. Isn’t It
worth the measly $49.95 introductory price to have a bright, shiny hard drive? If you agree, contact Alladin at 408-761-6200, or point
your browser to <http://www.aladdinsys.com>. Please. Even the mayor will be happy.

32 MacADDICT

Contour Nouse/Stingray 4.

Contour Design/CoStar p

Contour Design cares. That’s why it created the Contour Mouse, the
first mouse that comes In many sizes — large, medium, and small for
both left- and right-handed mousers. The mice are ergonomically molded
to fit the hand and come with a thumb rest. Three programmable buttons
help you get the most out of your mouse with the least strain. For only
$59.95 and a phone call to 603-893-4556, or a browse over to <http://

www.contourdes.com>,

COMFORTABLE CURVES AND A SEA CREATURE. your very own. For those who

like trackballs and have a fondness for the
muscle car by the same name, CoStar

(http://www.costar.com; 800-426-7827) presents the Stingray 4.0 trackball. The Stingray
4.0 features two programmable buttons, a virtual third button, application- and user-
specific settings, and the ability to use the Stingray sideways or upside-down (not you,
silly, the trackball). For only $59.95, it’s available in Apple platinum or Stealth Black for
those super-secret computing missions.

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those who collect and listen to it houis on end. I have very eclectic

tastes. Itoih^a century I have

listened to foDc music, orchestial
music andjazz. 1 have sung in
choirs and played in orchestras,
bands and quintet^ trios and

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duets, 1 usually }jst play solo whcnevci 1 get a chance, which Is not
often emdgh.

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a yard's worth of vinyl on
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followed by pop with only
a minimal amount of
country. Many years ago 1
tooUshly took my old
coHectloQ of pop vinyl
andsoldit to aused lecordstoie. Every now and then 1 want to listen
to one of the songs on those old recordings and I see those same disks
in the bins at td^e the price of what 1 received fox them.

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have any if you persist in this behavior) by looking up obscure word synonyms with
Nisus Writer 5.0’s thesaurus. Version 5.0 is jam-packed with some nifty other
features, including

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even an Open Doc container, which means you can embed your favorite Live Objects
in its documents. All this for only $257 direct from Nisus Software ($149 if you own
another word processor, and $69.95 if you own any previous version of Nisus Writer). Contact Nisus at 800-281-0101 or go to
<http://www.nisus-soft.com> so you can make your own list of fun-to-took-up words. And you’ll know they’re spelled correctly.

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MacADDICT 33

cravings

Here’s a bunc

When it comes to cool games for the Mac* the world is your virtual oyster.
(And if you’d ever look up from your computer for a second, you’d Imow
this.) So, while we’re lucky enough to have your attention, know this; you can
find great Mac software on the web, in pretty catalogs and lots of great places

MechWarrior2 puts you in control
of the BattkMech, the awesome 3 Jst-
centuiy war machine. Customize
one of 15 Mechs to fight in over
30 challenging missions against
enemy Mechs. Ascend the ranks of
your clan to become the ultimate
MechWarrior. From Activision.

AcIiVE^

Gabriel Knight, the hero of the
spine-tingling "Sins of the Father',’
scares the living pants off us once
again as he solves this multiple
mutilation murder tale, The Beast
Within. You'll leave evety light on
in the house for a week after this
one. From Sierra On-Line.

Never again feel the loss associated
with finishing a game of Marathon.
The third chapter brings it all fidl
circle, and Bungle’s own editing
tools give you limitless power
to create the adventures. We still
recommend retina breaks ever)'
30 hours or so. From Bungle.

Descent Ws new 360’‘3~D animation
will keep you glued to the screen
for hours as you battle an armada
of crazed robots. You ’ll tap into
a ton of cool, high-tech weapomy
and all the wits and reflexes you
can muster as you try to fight off
the onslaught. From MacPlay.

WarCraft U, the best-selling PC game,
now explodes on the Macintosh: Take
command of either the ruthless Ocrs
or the noble humans in your quest
to rule the land ofAzeroth. Make
powerful new allies, battle teiriffing
new creatures, conquer new lands.
From Blizzard Entertainment

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Fidl Tilt! Pinball is as realas it gets.
A truly realistic pinball experience
on a computer. Accept the challenge
of three mesmerizing pinball tables,
each with its own photorealistic
3-D graphics, incredible sound
effects and accurately modeled ball
movement From Maxis, Inc.

like Best Buy and CompUSA (understanding, of course, that leaving the house is unavoidable ifyou want to visit one of the stores). In
fact, just short of beaming game code directly into your cerebral cortex via satellite, you can get your hands on the really good stuff
almost any way you want. Th begin your obsession with Mac software and to check out all these different ways to buy, get on the Internet
and plant yourself in front of our web site at http://www.macsoftware.apple.com. Or, if you’re into tradition, call 800-500-4862

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...and\then some

want to know
about type

by Ted Alspach

Download a
bunch of

these cool
fonts off The
Disc and
learn how to
tame them

t’s an obsession. You’re sitting in a movie theater, riveted to the big screen as the film’s opening
credits flash through a spine-tingling sequence of exploding bombs, screaming tourists, and
seductive villains. Suddenly, you sit straight forward, as if to get a better look, muttering, “I can’t
believe it!”

with the font
management
demos.

Your date turns to you, as enraptured with the on-screen action
as you appear to be, and asks, “What? What is it?”

Disappointed and disgusted, you shake your head in disbelief.
“They’re reversing Bodoni. The serifs are practically nonexistent!”
Everyone down the line from professional graphic designers to
page layout initiates can trace this strange font fixation back to the
birth of the Macintosh, the first computer to ship with multiple fonts
installed. Chicago, Geneva, Monaco, and New York: In 1984, these
four typefaces instandy became as famous as the cities that inspired

them. As the Mac quickly became the computing standard for
graphic designers, this paltry collection of characters bloomed into a
thriving industry that has since spawned thousands of typefaces,
multiple font managers, design dilemmas, and a jargon all its own.

As confusing as it sounds, you don’t need to be a graphics pro to
keep the peace in all of your extended font families. Even if you don’t
know your x-height jfrom a dingbat, we’ll bring you up to speed on
font terms, design issues, and management techniques in our three-
part guide that will make storing and using your fonts a breeze.

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science) to install and remove fonts. Just
do the following: - ^ //

1. Quit all applications.

; 2. Install new fonts by dragging them

onto your System Folder Your Mac

will autdmatica%^^ them in the
Fonts folder, which is inside the
. System Folder. ^ -

3. Remove fonts by dragging them
from the Fonts folder (inside the
System Folder) to a location on your
hard drive outside the System Folder.

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faces lack serifs. Sans serif type is often used
for headlines and tides where you really want
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fonts

Learning the Lingo

Before you attempt to wrestle your fonts into sub-
mission, you should know exactly what sort of
beast you’re up against. You need to get to know
your fonts. Spend time with them. Play with them.
But first, find out what they like to be called with
our illustrious illustrated naming device.

Garamond Book Condensed
COPPERPLATE
Palatine
Rotis Semi -Serif

“font” interchangeably. Althou^ this Each font is unique,
usage is technic^y incorrect, it has
become so common that everyone except diehard typography
snobs deem it acceptable.

Font All of the letters, numbers,
symbols, and punctuation marks of
one size of one style of one typeface.

Specifically Officina Serif book is a
font, Officina Serif book italic is
another font, and Officina Serif bold
is yet another font. You get the idea. Four faces: so different!

Display fonts EXTRA!

EXTRA! These statuesque
fonts, such as Swiss Black
Extended, are sized at 14
points or bigger and used Catch your eye? This is display type,
mostly for headlines.

DISPLAY

Officina Serif book
Officina Serif book italic

Officina Serif bold
Officina Serif bold italic

Typeface All of the letters, numbers,
symbols, and punctuation marks of a
particular design. A typeface can be
made up of a variety of styles, or fonts.
In these modem days, many people
often use the terms “typeface” and

Decorative fonts

Too flashy for everyday use,
decorative fonts such as
Amelia are used sparingly
to create a mood or evoke
a predicted response. And
they look great in logos!

Text fonts Text fonts,
such as Caslon and
Garamond make long pas-
sages of text easy to read.

Point A point, which is Vj2 of an inch,
is used to measure type size. Twelve-
point type is fine for reading, l4-point
and larger loofe good in display type,
and 6-point type makes up all that fine
print at the bottom of advertisements
that no one wants you to see.

Dingbats Tiny, decorative pictures such
as diamonds, hearts, and stars that are
not to be confused with the deliciously
flavored marshmallows in Lucky Charms.

Or, anyone who doesn’t read MacAddict. Dingbat silliness.

10 point

14 point

18 point

Get the point size right.

Caslon is a decent enough
body font to have survived hun-
dreds of years. You can’t really go
wrong with Caslon, but just the
same, we really adore Garamond.

Simple text makes reading easy.

Qecopstive

When looks are ail that matter.

In a Fix Over File Formats?

If you’ve never worked with fonts before, choosing a file format can be downright
confusing. Several rotating liaisons between Adobe and Apple, Apple and
Microsoft, and Microsoft and Adobe have borne a slew of different yet functional
file formats. How are they different? Which one works the best? We’ll tell you how
each font technology works and then give you tips on choosing the appropriate
one for you.

Bitmapped

Bitmapped fonts These are the classic,
originally-shipped-with-the-first-Mac fonts, such
as Geneva and Chicago. Bitmapped characters
are created in your Mac and displayed on your
screen in pixels. The same pixels you see on the
screen are the ones in the font itself, leading
them to often be referred to as “screen fonts.”
These fonts were printed with the Apple
ImageWriter, which offered the same resolution
as the Mac screen: 72 dots per inch. Back then,
you needed to have a screen font for each point
size that you wanted to print, otherwise your Mac
would just pull, push, and maneuver the size it
had, creating some odd-looking characters.

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PostScript Type 1: In 1985, John Warnock
and Chuck Geshke of Adobe Systems created a
computer language just for printers, the
PostScript page description language, which
would revolutionize the font industry. So-called
PostScript fonts, which use bitmap data to dis-
play your font on-screen, also include extra
information describ-
ing the characters’
outlines that is sent
directly to a
PostScript printer.

PostScript print-
ers are equipped
with built-in proces-
sors that interpret this outline information and
convert it mathematically (called “rasterizing”)
into dots, which the printer needs to reproduce
the font. This process results in fonts that you
can scale to any point size and print with mini-
mal distortion.

You’ll find a PostScript font’s bitmap and out-
line information divided into separate files called
the screen font and the printer font. The screen
font, which is stored in a suitcase icon in your
Fonts folder in the System Folder, needs to be
installed before your font will appear in the Fonts
menu or on-screen. The printer font, however, is
a different icon, which is usually stored in the
same folder as your screen font. Keeping track of
printer fonts can be difficult, because each icon
looks different depending on which vendor cre-
ated it. It’s smart to keep tabs on both the screen
font and the printer font because you must have
both installed for a PostScript font to print.

Although PostScript fonts looked terrific in
print, their on-screen counterparts still looked
rough around the edges until Adobe Type
Man^^er (ATM) appeared on the scene in 1989.
ATM works like a PostScript printer by using
math formulas to rasterize &e outline informa-

tion of your chosen screen font into the dots
needed for a smooth on-screen display. ATM also
lets you print PostScript fonts to non-PostScript
printers such as the old dot matrix ImageWriters
and most modem inkjets.

TrueType: In 1990, Apple finally realized that
paying license fees to
Adobe for the
PostScript fonts that
they were giving away
with their own system
software was silly,
^ple teamed up with
Microsoft to create
fonts that didn’t need PostScript but would work
just as well and look just as good. These fonts
entered the Macintosh world as Trueiype and
still ship with Apple System software. Outline-
based and contained all in one file, TmeType
works in much the same manner as ATM to cre-
ate clean fonts on-screen
and off. TrueType fonts
work on both Macintosh
and Windows systems.

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Multiple Masters:

These are PostScript Type 1
fonts from Adobe with a twist: Each font comes
with at least two extremes of one type attribute.
For instance, Jenson comes with a very fight ver-
sion and a very heavy version. Penumbra comes
with several versions: sans serif, serif, roman,
and italic. Using special utilities, you create the
exact variation of the font you want by basing it
on these multiple masters.

OpexiType: Coming soon to a computer near
you. Developed jointly by — switch!- — ^Adobe and
Microsoft, this format (slated to appear in 1997)
will contain the best features of PostScript and

TrueType, and even
some of Adobe’s
Multiple Master tech-
nology. In addition,
built-in compression
technology will make
the fonts more Web-
ready (gee, what a surprise). They’ll also be
cross-platform compatible.

QuickDraw GX: Apple, ever discontent with
existing technology, invested lots of time and cash
on QuickDraw GX, an “update” to the QuickDraw
software that sends images to your monitor (and
non-PostScript printers). To further enhance GX,
Apple created a font technology with all sorts of
built-in design capabilities that allowed for larger
character sets and better-looking on-screen dis-
play. GX fonts are capable of 65,000 characters
per font, context-sensitive glyphs (different ver-
sions of characters that are used based on their
position within a word or paragraph to make the
type look best), optical alignment (so that letters
look like they fine up better), and varying styles
(so you can swap among multiple character
widths, slants, serif sizes, and even weights).
To date, GX has not been accepted because it
slows your Mac to a crawl, no major applications
support it, and it isn’t cross-platform. But be
warned: You will see it again in a later system, m
a new and improved form.

TrueType Truism

Decisions, Decisions

How do you decide which kind of font to use? If you’re shooting
for a certain look and are willing to fuss around with your font to get
it just right. Multiple Master fonts are a dream come true. PostScript
or TrueType, however, are used for most practical purposes.

Although choosing a font format is most often a matter of per-
sonal preference, you should be aware of each format’s pluses and
minuses before settling on one. PostScript fonts, with their dual
information files, can create annoying printing problems if you
don’t have both on-screen and printer fides installed. TrueType
fonts, though contained in one file and much easier to manage, take
up more space on your hard disk than PostScript fonts and take
longer to print. They also tend to randomly conflict with PostScript
printers, causing unpredictable printing problems that range from
time delays to total crashes. Graphic designers who send their work
to a service bureau for output on liigh-end imagesetters (which are
always PostScript machines) should be wary of these potential

All TrueType icons come branded with
the letter “A,” but you’ll notice that some
TrueType fonts are marked with three “A”s
and others with only one. The file with the
icon sporting the triple “A” is the only one
you need to display and print your TrueType
font at all sizes. The TrueType icons marked
with a single “A” and labeled with a point
size are bitmapped, one-size-only screen
fonts— usually the sizes you’ll use most
often. You can choose to Install them for a
very slight speed Increase on-screen or to
trash them and free up valuable memory.

printing dilemmas.

If you’re still waf-
fling over formats,
here are some guide-
lines to help you decide:

Standardize If Possible. A Fonts folder stuffed vrith a mix of
TrueType, PostScript, and GX fonts is a disaster waiting to happen.
This is very bad. Stick to one format and you’ll nainimize your risk of
unwanted printing surprises.

Give In to Peer Pressure. Does your boss worship at the
altar of Adobe? Stick with PostScript. Your spouse refuses to have a
separate file for screen fonts? Stock up on TrueType.

Save Money, Buy the Cheap Stuff. TrueType fonts tend to
be less expensive (on average) than their PostScript counterparts.

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fonts

You can buy as many fonts as you’d like. You can use whichever ones you want
in any document. The thing is, use the wrong combination of fonts, the wrong
number of fonts, or inappropriate fonts in inappropriate places, and the design
police will brutally take you down like Andy Sipowicz on a bender. Keep yourself
out of trouble (and maybe even make a few new friends) by adhering to the
following rules for using, avoiding, and buying fonts. If you don’t, we will know,
and we will find you. We will.

Ten Type Commandments

1. Reversed Type Is Dimcuit to Read.

Anyone who has ever tried to read six pages of
white text on a black background in a really cool
Mac magazine has probably noticed that it takes
much longer to read than the other sections of
the magazine. If you haven’t already noticed, we’^

Reversal of Type

redesigned our Disc P^es section. That’s why.

2. Madntosh System Fonts Are Prettier
Than Windows System Fonts* Look at a
Windows screen. Control your urge to giggle.
Look at a Macintosh screen. “Ooh” and “ahh”
where appropriate. The eye-pleasing combo of
Geneva and Chicago beats out MS Sans Serif
every day of the week.

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3* Mixing Upper and Lowercase Letters Makes Words Easier to Read. ALL UPPERCASE
GETS ATTENTION ONLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO STARE AT IT SO LONG TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT SAYS.

4. A Little Tracking Goes a Long Way. Tracking, the adjustment
of the spacing between letters, can make words look even more like
words. Huh? Well, properly tracked letters enhance and solidify the
shapes of words, which is key to reading and comprehension.

5. Old-style Numerals Rock. Numbers that dip below the base-
line occasionally can make text look much better than standard
monospaced numbers. That’s because old-style numerals look like
the other text they’re wedged into.

6. Serif Type Looks Better in Print; Sans Serif Works Better On-screen. The smaller
and less detailed the type, the more likely that serifs will (a) get lost or (b) appear like gargantuan
appendices. Either option results in type that is less readable than a standard sans serif face
on-screen (where you have less detail due to a fixed number of pixels).

7. Really Funky Fonts Draw Attention to the Font, Not the
Words. Yeah, it’s great that you own a font that turns every letter into a
different infectious virus. But even when used as a heading for a story

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Our Top 10 Fonts

If we were stuck on a deserted island,
with no Internet connection and no means of
escape, and if we were so smart as to be able
to power-up our Mac but so stupid as to
choose to play with it instead of scavenging
for food or building shelter, we would want
these fonts to make really cool on-screen
documents. So should you.

1. Meta. Developed by artist Eric
Speakerman for use by the German Postal
Service, this font is not only elegant and
versatile but wide — ^Perfect for those long
school reports that you need to stretch out.

2. Rotis Semi-Serif, if you’re

feeling indecisive but still want a font that
looks good, Rods Semi-Serif lets you have the
best of both serif and sans serif worlds.

3. (Shareware) The
handwriting lonts of the gods. It has bold-
face and Marker versions as well as the
regular weight.

4. Monaco. The quintessential

monospaced screen font. When you want
each character in a paragraph to be equally
spaced, regardless of its God-intended width,
look to Monaco as the great equalizer.

5. Helvetica. Everyone has it, and
it’s great for minuscule point sizes on legal
documents, in case you rear-end someone
and need them to sign a waiver.

6. Geneva. It looks great on a

PowerBook screen whether you’re working
at 9 or 12 points.

7. (Zapf Dingbats).

Sometimes you need a little check mark. Or
a heart. Or a pointing finger.

8. ExiffiPoX (Symbol). The productive
side of Zapf Dingbats. When you need to say
“the sum of’ without saying “the sum of.”

9. (Shareware)
Invaluable for when you’ve just taken
hostages and don’t have a magazine and pair
of scissors handy.

10. Zapf Cfiancery. The elegant, flowing
curves work for bar mitzvah invitations,
thank-you notes, and the occasional lewd
love letter.

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about infectious viruses, the font will overpower the title. Use these sparingly and as
art elements.

8» Drop Caps Should Never Appear in
Two Consecutive Paragraphs. Drop caps
signify the beginning of something new.
Nothing will draw a reader’s eye to the next
section faster than an upcoming drop cap
(except maybe naked-lady fonts, but that’s an
entirely different article).

Drop signify ^ beginning of someAtog new. Nothing will

draw a reader’s ey« to Ihe he^sectionijs^ an upcoming

drop cap (except maybe naked-lad^ fonts* but that’s an entirdy dif-
, ferent ardde).

Drop caps signify the b^inning of somofoing new. Nothing will
draw a reader’s eye to the nmd action fester than an upcoming
drop cap (except maybe nakeddady fonts, boithm’s an enturefy dff-
' fetent article)^

9. Robin Williams' "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter" Is
Required Reading. If you’ve never read this excellent tome, run out
to your local one-stop book shop and pick up a copy, or call PeachPit
Press at 800-283-9444. Then read Robin’s follow-up, “Beyond the
Mac Is Not a Typewriter.” And then read Robin’s “How to Boss Your
Fonts Around.” And then wear one of those cool hats and pretend
to be Robin.

10. If You Use Too Many Fonts on a Single Page, Your Mac Will Explode.

It’s a httle-known feature of System 7.5, so don’t pick a different font for every word in
a paragraph, or a different font for each heading. Don’t say we didn’t warn you...

Five Most Played-
out Fonts of 1996

Overused, tired, and unoriginal,
these fonts have appeared in print
more times than Bill Gates. Someone
get an imagination, quick!

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Hurl.

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geeks only.

Yes, it was

great. Let it go.

Aunt Sylvia’s Selectric seems high
end compared with tliis stuff.

J < Gee, you have four railhon
fonts from which to choose...

OnR Five Fave Font Vendors

The first few fonts were free (they came on your Mac). As with any good
thing, you now have to pay to keep your font habit going. Where do you go? What
font vendors will help you when you’re jonesing for a new font like there’s just
no tomorrow?

One inexpensive choice is shareware. Shareware fonts are available in all
sorts of places, from the MacAddict Disc to online services (such as America
Online) to various Web and ftp sites. Most shareware fonts cost about $5 to $10
per font and are available in both True'fype and PostScript 'fype 1 formats.
Beware of font-collection CDs that feature shareware fonts; the
cost of the CD does not include the shareware fees for the fonts.

As always with shareware, if you use the fonts, make sure you
send in the required fee. These small amounts allow shareware
developers to create such great stuff at such low prices.

If you choose to buy commercial fonts, you can order them
from most mail-order houses or direcdy from the manufacturer.

The following is a list (in no particular order), in our humble
opinion, of some of the best font vendors of Macintosh typefaces.

3. Adobe

(800-833-6687,
http://www.
adobe.com) King
of PostScript.
Lord of Fonts. All
hail the great
Adobe Originals.

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1. Bitstream

(800-237-3335, http://www.bit
stream.com) The blue-collar, work-
ingman’s foundry. Less expensive
than Adobe and almost as good.

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4. Emigre

(800-944-9021, http://
www.emigre.com) Founded
in 1984, Emigre helped to
spark the alternative design
revolution with controversial
fonts created by new, lead-
ing-edge designers. Here’s
your chance to be hip.

2. Letraset

(800-343-8973 , http ://www. letraset . com)
Support for the Mac is less than fantas-
tic, but Letraset makes a bazillion cool
display fonts you won’t find elsewhere.

Beyoml tHectioii. FonlHats also off«n the best prioet, services, special promotiom
and expert product knowledge lor Mao and PC floppy disk or CD-Roio users.

5. FontHaus

(800-942-9110, http://www.
members.aol.com/fonthaus/
index.html) Lots of unusual stuff. And
we mean that as a compliment.

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Fonts for All Ages

As far as fashion history is concerned, the 70s will remain forever
trapped in bell-bottom hip-huggers, the ’50s in poodle skirts, and
the ’80s in leg warmers and ripped sweatshirts. Much like these
tacky clothes, certain typefaces serve to remind us of times past. So
if you want to give your flyer, invitation, or logo a notoriously dated
look, you might take inspiration from our typeface timeline where
we’ve gathered together a sampling of historically nostalgic fonts.

Hundreds of Years Ago.

Type evoking old styles of the 1500s, l600s, and 1700s
almost always falls into the category of “Old English.” The
swashes, swirls, and drastic light vs. heavy strokes create a
feeling of classic old-style European culture. The Old
English style is often used on official documents and
wedding invitations. A thick favorite from this set is Fette
Fraktur, which seems destined to appear on German
hymnal covers.

Turn of the Century.

Woodcut mania. Fonts that look like they belong on a
“Wanted” poster in the Old West. Several fonts reminis-
cent of this time period have a tendency to showcase
overweight, showy serifs. Popular examples include
Rosewood (above) and Adobe’s Woodtype fonts, featur-
ing such classics as Ponderosa, Poplar, and Willow.

Art D

eco

1930s Art Deco.

Anytime you see art deco fonts, the prewar era suddenly
springs to mind. The font style (as well as the hideous decorat-
ing motijEs) was en vogue again in the late ’80s but quickly faded
away, leaving only a few Nagel-engraved mirrors in its wake.

CRAZY

The Early '80s.

In the days just prior to the desktop publish-
ing boom (before 1988), display typefaces were
undergoing changes of weird proportions. Some
of the most unusual, bizarre, and odd typefaces
were created during this time. Letraset led the
charge, supplying design studios with the widest
range of fonts imaginable (until the ’90s, at least) .

Why Everyone Hates the '70s.

Two decades ago, no one really thought that wide
ties and bell-bottoms would be scoffed at and
ridiculed for the next century. It was a dark, dark
time for fashion and an equally dark time for fonts.
From the perky curves of Souvenir to the fatter, more
annoying curves of Cooper Black, popular fonts
were bubbly and overly friendly to the point of
making most people violendy ill.

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The '60s; Hippy-induced Rock Poster Fonts.

During the late ’60s, designers got groovy on fonts by
bending, molding, and twisting them to create mellow,
peace-loving typefaces that adorned posters for such mellow,
peace-loving bans as The Grateful Dead; Peter, Paul and
Mary; and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. These trippy type-
faces, such as Arnold Boecklin (above), helped usher in the
’70s, when the sex was even more casual, people weren’t just
saying no to drugs, and hippies were allowed to live in odier
areas of the nation besides small college campuses and San
Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district.

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The Late '80s; The Desktop Publishing Revulsion.

If Macs are responsible for anything bad (and because they’re respon-
sible for Windows in a roundabout way, this is an arguable point), they are
definitely to blame for one of the ugliest disorders ever to appear in the
Western Hemisphere, and which is still largely incurable: Multiple Font Us^e
Syndrome. This uncontrollable urge to stuff as many fonts, styles, point sizes,
angles, and effects as a stock LaserWriter will print onto one p^e has been
largely ignored by research centers, and it remains a problem even today.

the '90s

The Anti-'908.

As in digital art, the very cool thing to do with your $3,000
Mac is to make your work look as though it was created with
anything but a computer. The emergence of several “type-
writer” fonts that include all sorts of realistic effects, such as
missing characters, angled letters, and ink splotches, have
appeared everywhere. In addition, handwritten fonts
have become the other rage, kind of a wacky throwback to
the time when people used things such as pen and lined paper
to communicate.

Controlling Chaos

You have 10 different versions of Tekton floating around
your Fonts folder. You get a migraine trying to figure out
why Optima won’t show up in your File menu. To top it all
off, you’ve had so many problems with corrupted fonts, you
feel like you’re running a detention center for wayward
typefaces. Face it, you are in the bell jar. Take control of
your fonts with the appropriate utilities (we’ll show you
how to use ’em), and check out our remedies for your
worst font aches and pains.

Middle Management

The Fonts folder. If the mere mention of that folder makes
your blood curdle, and if the dam thing takes about six weeks
to open on your 240MHz 603 system, and if you have no idea
what’s in there (even the sight of a JimmyHoffa font doesn’t
raise an eyebrow), then you might start thinking about ways
to make sense of your mess.

Fortunately, a ton of utilities exist to help frazzled font
enthusiasts clean out their Fonts folders and keep their fonts
organized. If you’re perfectly satisfied using the fonts that
came shipped with your Mac and haven’t bought any extras,

AdobeType Manager Deluxe

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fonts

Reason #26 Why Macs Are Better Than PCs; Fonts

PCs require you to install fonts via m Install Fonts command; tiiere is no simple drag and drop
{even though there is a font directory). Probably more important, if you want to see a sample of
the font, Windows still shows the classic (and boring) phrase “the quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog."

Although annoyingly stereotypical (ask any dog who isn’t currently napping and it will tell you
so), this arcane typing lesson cleverly uses each of the 26 letters in the English alphabet. Mac
users, however, did away widi it back in 1991, with the introduction of System 7.0. Now double-
clicking on a Mac font displays the insightful, “How razorback jumping frogs can level six piqued
gymnasts!”

The phrase itself triggers the creative juices, doesn’t it?

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then you really don’t need any of these nifty util-
ities— the Fonts folder will handle your fonts just
fine. But if you find yourself gushing over a new
favorite typeface every day, you’ve probably
racked up enough fonts in your Fonts folder to
warrant a little outside help. Also, you’ll enjoy
the ease with which a font manager enables a
font (depending on the application you’re
using), without forcing you to quit all running
applications. Cool.

Regardless of whether you’re using
Symantec’s Suitcase, Adobe’s ATM Deluxe, or
Alsoft’s Masterjuggler to manage your fonts, the
following general guidelines to working with your
fonts will make managing them less of a chore.

1. Organize your fonts into folders
that represent how you use them.

For instance, you might keep a folder of fonts
that you use exclusively for your personal
letters and one for those that you use when
you’re keeping things strictly business.

2. Don't force all your fonts onto
your main (startup) hard drive. The
beauty of font management software is that the

fonts can exist anywhere, such as on an Iomega
Zip drive, a server, or another hard drive.

3. Keep as few fonts as possible
open. The fewer fonts you have installed, the
faster most applications will launch, and the
faster the Font menu will appear. This is much
easier to achieve using font management soft-
ware than by dragging things in and out of the
Fonts folder.

4. Starting up with extensions
turned off can be problematic. Font
management software exists as extensions, and
not having them installed prevents font sets

fi:om being loaded. This can cause all sorts of
problems, which you can avoid by using Apple’s
Extensions Manager to turn off everything but
your font management software. As an extra
safeguard, keep essential fonts such as Chicago,
Monaco, Geneva, and Symbol in your System
Folder at all times.

5. Some applications get confused
when fonts are opened or closed via
font management software while applications
are running. It’s a good idea to quit any open
applications that use fonts before closing or
opening different font sets.

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Suitcase 3.0
Developer: Symantec
Price: $69.95 (street)
Contact: 800-277-3948
ext. D132;

http://www.symantec.com
Requirements: System 7.1
or later, 4MB of RAM

Suitcase 3.0 is an exten-
sion that packs your fonts
into neat little sets and then
quickly and easily loads
and unloads those sets, let-
ting you change the fonts
without messy dragging in
the Finder. However, to take
advantage of any of the
following drag-and-drop
shortcuts, you’ll need to be
running System 7.5, or
System 7.1.1 or 7.1.2 with
the Macintosh drag-and-
drop extension installed.

Drag fonts into an existing
set to add them to that set.

Drag fonts into the window
to add them to the list.

Click on the triangle to the
left of the set name, so
that it faces down, to see
the fonts In that set.

To create an application set
(one that loads specific fonts
when a certain application is
launched), drag the icon of
the application into the
Suitcase window.

Add entire sets by
dragging their folders
from the Finder into the
main Suitcase window.

Click In the Compressed column to
conpress fonts using Suitcase’s
compression technology.

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to and from
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ton to create
a new set.

Turn sets on and
off by clicking the
bullet under the
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ATM Deluxe 4.0
Developer: Adobe Systems
Price: $99.95 (srp)

Contact: 800-445-8787;
http://www.adobe.com
Requirements: System 7.0.1 or later,
SMB of RAM

By the time you read this, Adobe
Type Manager Deluxe 4.0 — the cure
for all your font management blues —
should be hitting the shelves at your
local Mac retail outlet. Not only does
ATM Deluxe have font organization
capabilities that outweigh those of
Suitcase and friends, but also it offers
the one thing that will revolutionize
how we use fonts on-screen: anti-
aliased screen fonts. This massive litde
innovation (hidden away in a check-
box in the Preferences dialog box)
turns blocky fonts into smooth, read-
able letter and character shapes.
On-screen reading of anti-aliased fonts
results in fewer headaches, better
word recognition, and a smoother,
better “feel” to your Macintosh screen.

The Sets tab displays the
number of suitcases and the
size of each set.

The Fonts tab displays the num-
ber of fonts in each suitcase and
the suitcase sizes.

The Sets window shows .
a listing of each set.

Click on the pop-up menu at
the top of the list on the right to
toggle among different views;
Known Fonts, Active Fonts,
System Fonts, and Damaged Fonts.

Click on the farthest-left column
to turn sets on and off. Click the
triangles to ‘‘open” the sets to
show which fonts are inside.

The Activate and Deactivate but-
tons, respectively, turn on and ■—
off each selected font or set.

The Known Fonts window shows which
fonts have been enabled. Fonts can be
enabled/disabied one at a time by clicking
in the far-left column.

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Click on the “4<” Suitcase
button to add one font suit-
case to the list of fonts.

MasterJuggler Pro
Developer: Alsoft
Price: $89.95 (srp)

Contact: 800-257-6381
Requirements: System 7.1 or later,
1MB of RAM

Masterjuggler Pro, like its counter-
parts, lets you use your fonts efficiently
by storing them in sets somewhere
other than in your System Folder.
Although it offers many of the same
capabilities as its competitors, this
program is unique in that it organizes
font sets so that you can move and
manipulate them at the Finder level.
When you open fonts using Master-
Juggler, you can open either an
individual font family or an entire set
of user-grouped fonts.

Use the Open button to find (and create)
font suitcases on your system.

The Compress and
Decompress buttons
reduce the size of the font
suitcases. Compressing
drastically decreases the
amount of disk space that
your fonts use and is a
godsend for users with
limited hard disk space
(as on FowerBooks).

Change the contents
of an existing suit-
case with Edit Set.

Suitcases that are currently in use
will show up in the Available files
window. The symbols next to them
Indicate their status.

Click the New Set button to create
a new set In which you can com-
bine other suitcases or fonts.

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fonts

On a Wing and a Prayer (aka: the free way)

If you’re feeling resourceful, not to mention
low on cash, you can manage your fonts using a
lot of patience and a little ingenuity. First, store
the fonts you aren’t using outside your Fonts
folder and drag them in only when needed.
When you don’t want them anymore, drag them
back out. This method will help cut the amount
of memory that fonts take up. It has some restric-
tions, the most irritating of which is that you
can’t remove fonts from the Fonts folder when an
application is running. Also, currently running
applications won’t display fonts that you’ve just
dragged into the Fonts folder until you quit the
applications and relaunch them. Remember, the
Fonts folder can’t read fonts that are within other
folders within the Fonts folder... each font must
be loose in that folder if you want it to work.

Font Window Tips

Install fonts by dragging a font
suitcase into the Fonts folder.

Suitcases contain files
that contain sample text
in that font.

Remove fonts by dragging a
font suitcase out of the
Fonts folder.

Don’t place font suitcases
within other folders inside the
Fonts folder.

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Do you have so many fonts you’ve forgotten
what they all look like? Hey, it happens. Even the
most dedicated designers can lose track of the
multimegabytes of fonts they’ve got stored away.
Although we can’t guarantee you’ll never forget
a typeface, we’ve got five hints to help you jog
your memory.

1. Double-chck the
font suitcase, then
open any of the fonts
inside. A sample of
the font will appear
on-screen in varying
point sizes.

2. Use font menu
man^ement software, such as Adobe lype
Reunion (which also organizes fonts by family)
or Now Utilities WYSIWYG menus, to display
fonts in the Font menu in the actual typefaces.

Suitcase 3.0 can also display menu fonts in their
own faces without any additional software,
although this option is not quite as flexible as
WYSIWYG menus.

3 . Print out a list of your fonts for handy refer-
ence. A great freeware program called the
lypeBook will generate a list of your fonts in
their own faces automatically (The TypeBook is
also available in a more feature-rich shareware
version, with a price to match.) If you’re using
ATM Deluxe 4.0, it also has the ability to print
out type spec pages.

4. Keep a font catalog such as ‘Tout & Function”
(free from Adobe) nearby. Not only will it
remind you of the fonts you already have but also
inspire you to try new ones.

5. Tattoo the fonts along your forearms for
maximum efficiency

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affair, a utility such as Adobe Type Reunion will
dramatically speed up your search by organizing
your fonts into manageable families with submenus.

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You’ve done an incredible logo for the
Teenage Astronauts Association in Adobe
Illustrator. You pop it into your outstanding new
lAA newsletter and then send both files to
your local service bureau. A few nunutes after
you return to the office, the service bureau calls,
telling you it’s a no-go because you used
fonts that it doesn’t have. Hard to believe not
everyone is using BlackLotus, Disenchant, and
Tranquillity.

Tltis scenario is all too famffiar to Mac
users. Although it is technically illegal to give

your fonts to someone
else (without first eras-
ing them from your
system), what other
choice do you have? A
couple, as it turns out.

Print to a
PostScript File.

All Macintosh applications have the capabil-
ity to create a PostScript file on your hard disk.
In the Print dialog box, click the Destination box

and then choose the File option. This creates a
file that contains all the fonts in your document.
The downfall to this procedure is that it makes
the file almost uneditable unless you...

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Create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

A PDF (Portable Document Format) file can be
created from within any application (provided
you have the Acrobat software) and can be read
by anyone who has the Acrobat Reader software
(free from Adobe). Acrobat files have become
the standard in cross-platform document

exchange for several reasons, not the least of
which is excellent font handling ability. When
creating a PDF file with Acrobat, you choose to
include fonts or not. If you don’t include fonts,
Acrobat uses special substitute fonts that look a
little different but always take up the same space
when printing.

Five Most Unwanted
Font Problems

Chances are good that if you work with a
wide variety of fonts, you’ll experience at least
one, if not all, of the following font-related
disasters. Before you go dissing Adobe or bad-
mouthing Bitstream, you should realize that most
of these problems aren’t as terrible as they may
seem at first. Read on for the solutions to your
most worrisome font woes.

1. Corrupted Fonts. This dreaded occur-
rence is fairly common, though many Mac users
will claim they’ve never had a font problem.
That’s because it’s often hard to blame any prob-
lem on a font. Weird crashes? Bizarro behavior?
Most Mac users try to rebuild the desktop, using
the Disk Doctor feature from Symantec’s Norton
Utilities on their drives, or even reinstall the
System software, but few ever think of removing
their fonts. To make matters worse, if you can
actually pin your problems on your fonts, how
do you figure out which one is the bad seed?

You can usually place blame on either the
screen font portion of PostScript fonts or the
entire suitcase of a particular typeface for
TrueType fonts. To narrow your search to the
exact font that’s causing you grief, you can use
Masterjuggler Pro’s Font Guardian or ATM
Deluxe 4.0’s Verify Fonts function. If you’re not
using either of these utilities, you’ll simply have to
add fonts one at a time until the problem resur-
faces; the last font you add before the problems
start up again is probably your corrupted font.
Delete it and reinstall it from the original disk.

2. Installed Fonts Aren't in the Font
Menu. Ooh, this is irritating. You pop a font
into your Fonts folder, or install it via Suitcase or
ATM Deluxe, but when you check the Font menu
in QuarkXPress, the font isn’t there! Grrrr. This
is usually easier to fix than you’d think. A cute
little dialog box appears when you drag fonts
into the Fonts folder that says something like,
“Fonts will not appear in open applications until
that apphcation is quit,” which you’ve undoubt-
edly ignored in your rush to install the font you
needed. The fix? Quit any programs that were
running and launch them again. The missing
fonts will appear right where you need them.

3. The Fonts Still Aren't in the Font
Menu! This is usually a problem with
PostScript fonts. Because they come in two parts
(screen and printer fonts), it’s easy for them to
separate. If the screen font wasn’t installed, the
printer font does you no good, and the fonts
won’t show up in the Font menu. Install the
screen fonts by dragging them into the Fonts
folder with no applications running and fonts
will appear where they belong.

4. Font Printout (or Display) Is All
Jagged and Icky. This usually happens with
PostScript fonts, as the screen and printer fonts
somehow become separated. The screen fonts are
installed (thus giving you the ability to select the
fonts in the Font menu), but the printer fonts
are not. Without printer fonts, your high-end Agfa

Vou cannot change items used by the
system mhile programs other than the
Finder are open. To make changes to this
folder or suitcase, first quit all open
application programs and desk
accessories.

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Here’s how to make a PDF file.

1 . Select Acrobat PDF Writer in the
Chooser.

2. From within your fevorite applica-
tion, choose the Print option
(usually command-P).

3. Click the Print button in the Print
dialog box.

4. Name the PDF file and click the
Save button.

That’s all there is to it! Give your PDF
file to anyone with Acrobat Reader and
€ey can print the document, whether
or not they have your fonts.

imagesetter (the one that cost more than your
first house), which tops off at 3,600 dpi, is print-
ing the 72-dpi screen fonts, stretching the
built-in ones to the desired point size. For on-
screen problems, ATM isn’t finding the printer
font, eiAer. The fix: Just drop the printer font
into your Fonts folder — it will put itself there
automatically if you drag your fonts on top of the
System Folder.

5. Slight Irregularities Occur When
Someone Else Prints Your Document.

“Gee, Ralph, the serifs look too thin on your
printouts. And that lowercase “j” doesn’t extend
far enough below the baseline.” Ralph slugs you
for being a font nerd. Abnormalities happen, and
you have a right to be concerned about them.
This is one of the better scenarios (experiencing

abnormalities, not get-
ting slugged), consider-
ing that so many manu-
facturers make what
they call the “same”
fonts. Other problems
include document
errors stating that fonts
are missing, or finding a big, nasty, white area
where you had laid out an essay entitled “The
Whitewater Feline Conspiracy: Why Clinton will
Pardon Socks.”

To keep these problems from arising, ensure
that your service bureau and anyone else who
prints your fonts are using the same fonts from
the same manufacturer as you are. Usually the
icons for PostScript printer fonts give a clue as to
the manufacturer of the font. The best way to
check is to do a Get Info (command-I) on the
suspect fonts. □

Ted Aispach is the author of “Macworld Illustrator 6.” Check
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fonts

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Make a funny face in just a few simple steps,

More expressive than a mood ring,
the font you choose to dress your
words often says more than the
words themselves. Fonts can
smile, shiver, scream, or whis-
per. They can be chatty. They can be reserved.

They can be whatever you want them to be, espe-
cially if you design them yourself. Although
professional type designers can spend years tweaking a typeface,
you can whip up your own in slightly less time if you’re willing to
live with a few imperfections. All you need to put your thoughts into
letters is a little creativity, a lot of patience, and Macromedia’s font
design software, Fontographer.

There are several ways to create a typeface. One is to import a
font that you know and love, such as Garamond (the font that Apple
uses), into Fontographer and then stretch it, squash it, twist it, and
turn it until it looks kind of like Garamond but not. This is fine for

by Nikki Echler with Ken Bousquet

strictly personal uses, but selling font rip-offs
as your own design is illegal and unethical.

You can also create a font from scratch, or
almost scratch. The first and most time-
consuming step is to draw each and every letter,
number, and symbol of the alphabet. Although
you can do this in Fontographer, you can also
use a drawing program, such as Macromedia’s
FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator, if you’re more comfortable with its
tools. Once you’ve perfected your characters, import them into
Fontographer to turn your drawings into a usable font.

Rather than start fi'om scratch, we took inspiration from our
environment and imported the characters from a garage sale sign.
Although it’s fine to get ideas fi:om handwritten samples like this,
remember that you will have to recreate the same look for all of the
other characters of the alphabet that aren’t in the sample. Tricky
business, but if you’re up for it, here’s what you need to know.

Fontographer Demystified

Fontographer is currently the most popular program available
for font creation, so if you’re going to design with the big boys,

The Layers palette is available
only while you’re In the Outline
window. All layers with an "x” are
shown in the window, but only the
highlighted layers are active.

Outline Layer - The Outline layer
is where you’ll create and edit
your font. Go ahead and tweak
those Bezier curves just as you
would In any drawing program.

Template Layer - This is
your tracing pad.

Guides Layer - Here you can
drag lines from the origin line
and baseline to create markers
that will help you keep your
characters at roughly similar
heights and widths.

Hints Layer - Designers use this
layer to add the complex details
that make a font look good at
small sizes and low resolutions.

Basepoint - The basepoint is usu-
ally where the baseline meets the
origin line, at the character’s origin
(0,0). However, you can change the
position of the basepoint to help you
measure other character parts.

you’ll heed to familiarize yourself with its features. Here’s a
quick guide to what does what.

^ Font Window - This is where you’ll find each
character of your font on display in a 24-polnt
bitmap format, the default. Whenever you cre-
ate a new font or open an old one,
you’ll see this window. You can view
your font in 12 different modes, but
for most purposes, you’ll stick with
the character view.

Position Indicators - These teil
you how far away your cursor is
from the basepoint.

Origin Line - The origin line, or left
sidebearing, marks the left side of
your character’s space. Where you
place your character in relation to
this line will determine the spacing
on the character’s (eft side.

Outline Window - The Outline
window (which you open from the
Windows menu) acts as an editing
room. You’ll do most of your font
fine-tuning here.

Baseline - The
baseline is the line
on which all of the
characters sit. It is
always at a vertical
location of zero.

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TEP

Before

I Scan your characters

After

start building your
font by following these
simple directions. (If
you hand-draw your
font in a drawing pro-
gram, you can skip
this step and import
your drawings direct-
ly into Fontographer.) Scan your art into Adobe Photoshop and
clean up any ink spots, fuzzy lines, or white spots. Be sure to
scan your font at 1 Vfe inches or larger (you can enlarge It first
with a photocopier); your letters will be easier to trace and
tweak. Save each character individually as a PICT file and copy
each directly into Fontographer.

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I Copy ytaur font

Fire up Fontographer and choose New Font from the File menu.
Click the character slot In the Font window where you want to copy

a character, then
open the Outline
window from the
Windows menu,
and paste in your
scanned image.
Do this for each
character of your
font.

I Aute Trace

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You should already be working in the Font
window, so you can just double-click the
character slot of the character you want to
trace to open up its Outline window. Make
sure that you’re working in the Outline
layer of the Layers palette and then trace
your character by choosing Auto Trace
from the Element menu. Choose Easy and
stick with the default value of 5 that

MOVE xm SLIDE CONTROL for a tighter
or looser trace.

Fontographer offers you-— this will create a
fairly accurate copy of your original char-
acter. Do this for each character of your
font. If you feel like experimenting, or If you
aren’t happy with your trace, select

EACH TRACED CHARACTER shows the
points needed to create it in the outline.

Advanced mode, which gives more
control over the detail of the trace but also
requires you to individually adjust the
settings for such features as balance lines
and cusps.

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Select Font Info
from the
Element menu;
type in a name
for your font;
give it a style,
such as bold,
normal, or italic;
and then save
your font. (This will apply to every character in the Font window
so that you have to name your font only once.) Make
sure you don’t give the font the same name as any other font in
your Fonts folder. If you name a font Times Roman, for example,
you’ll override your original Times Roman font. Always name
and save your font before you generate your font files and
bitmaps (Step 8), or you’ll end up with strange names that are
unusable and you’ll be forced to start over.

After you’ve traced your
character, use the scale
tool on the tools palette
In the Outline window
to grow your capital let-
ters up to the top of the
box. Do this by select-
ing the scale tool and
then clicking on the
baseline to create an
anchor point. Hold
down Shift and drag
your font until It reaches the top of the box, then double-click to
release. Design your lowercase letters to top out at half this height.
Not only will your letters be easier to adjust at this larger size, but
you’ll find it easier to keep all of the characters in your font roughly
the same size.

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Font metrics basically determine how fonts are spaced and
kerned. (Spacing is setting the width between characters,
and kerning is adjusting the width so that certain pairs of let-
ters look better side by side.) Perfectionists may choose to
set their metrics on a character-by-character basis for maxi-

mum tweaking, but most people will probably just take the
easy way and set the spacing for the entire font all at once.
Because spacing is the hardest part of font creation, new-
comers should use the Auto Space and Auto Kern
features to save a few years’ worth of time.

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Spacing. Open the Metrics window from the Windows menu. Choose
Auto Space from the Metrics menu and use Easy; this will set the spac-
ing for your entire font. Type sample characters In the Text box of the
Metrics window so that you can see how the characters are affected by
your spacing decisions, then adjust the spacing value until the charac-
ters look good to you. If nothing looks good to you and you want to
space your characters individually, select the Advanced mode and fill in
the blanks, hotshot.

Kerning. Remain in the Metrics window and select Auto Kern. Again,
choose Easy mode. Either set the amount of kerning pairs you want your
font to have, or select an upper limit amount; 500 pairs is usually sufficient.
Experiment with your kerning until you come up with a value that looks
good to you. Again, the Advanced mode is available for those who want to
individually kern all of their kerned pairs.

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Select Print from the
File menu and type in a
sample phrase using
your font to see how it
looks on the printed
page. You may opt to
print out different aspects
of your font, such as the
character outlines and kerning pairs. This is a good way to test how
your characters work together before you actually generate the font
files and bitmaps, giving life to this monster.

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install and use

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Install your new font directly into your Fonts folder or font manage-
ment software. The font you’ve created is real and needs to be
installed before you can use it. Now that you know how to create and
install your own font, you can use Fontographer for a slew of fun
projects. Scan your signature and assign it to a
keystroke to add a personal touch to letters. Create
your own logos. Or draw out and scan your own
symbols into Fontographer to create a picture-
based font the same way you would with regular
type. Take a look at one of our symbol samples.

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You need to
generate font
files and bit-
maps before
installing your
font or your
computer will
treat it as a
mere database
file, not a

usable font Select Generate Font Files from the File menu and
choose the Easy mode— the Advanced mode Is comprehensible
only to ‘Jeopardy” winners and professional font designers (it gives
control over Encoding vectors, which are something most people
should not be changing without good cause). Choose Macintosh
as the computer for which you are preparing the font, and pick a
font format. TrueType fonts don’t require you to set your bitmap
sizes, but PostScript fonts do, unless you’re using Adobe Type
Manager. Fontographer automatically generates a 24-point bitmap,
so if you’re using ATM, you need to generate only this size:
Otherwise, pick bitmap sizes that you’ll use frequently, such as
8,12, 14, and possibly 19 if you’ll be writing really big headlines.
Finally, set the folder where you want to keep your fonts. This
global process affects each character of your font, so you have to
do it only once.

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cameras

52 UacADDICT ■-

Ah, the American road. The sun beating down through
the bug-encrusted windshield. The engine humming as
it churns dead dinosaurs into loco-motion. Reflexes
jacked to a keen knife edge through massive doses of black diner
coffee. There’s nothing like it. And where would the perfect road
trip be without photos? It was probably the road trip that inspired
ol’ Mr. Kodak when he brought out his famous Brownies and put
photography (for good or bad) into the hands of your grandma.

It’s good to know that the drive to
record a drive persists well into the digi-
tal age. Due in part to the World Wide
Web’s hunger for images of everything
and everyone, several companies are
reaching for a piece of the growing digital
point-and-shoot market. Compared with
some of the first digital camera offerings,
the newer cameras produce decent
images with little fiiss. The digital family
vacation album may soon be the party
killer of the not-too-distant future.

Armed with some rockin’ tapes and
my trusty lab assistant, Gary, I hit Highway
101, subjecting four popular digital cam-
era models — ^Apple’s QuickTake 150 (an
improvement on the revolutionary
QuickTake 100), Casio’s QV-lOA (with its
neato, keeno LCD viewfinder), Epson’s
PhotoPC (which looks most like the tra-
ditional point-and-shoots that we know
and love), and the ergonomically pleas-
ing Olympus D-200L — to a strenuous
and well-caffeinated run behind Northern
California’s Redwood Curtain. The photos
we took were saved as TIFF images and
printed without any manipulation.

All four cameras can capture a 24-bit
high-resolution image of 640 x 480 pix-
els. However, here comes bummer No. 1
from the Casio camp: The QV-lOA
records image information at 480 x 240

pixels and interpolates the image to the
higher resolution. (The company makes
other digital cameras with 640 x 480 res-
olution.) This means the camera looks at
neighboring pixels and creates extra pix-
els through logarithmic calculation,
resulting in an image with extra data but
no extra information. Although low-reso-
lution images look like cubist paintings,
they are smaller, which leaves room for
more images. The QV-lOA can store up to
96 images before it runs out of memory.
The QuickTake can store 32 low-quality
images or l6 high-quality im^es, the
D-200L can store up to 80 low-resolution
or 20 high-resolution im^es, and the
PhotoPC can store either 32 low-resolu-
tion or 16 high-resolution images (an
optional memory module is available that
can boost the Epson’s storage up to 80
high-resolution or 160 low-resolution
images.) The storage advantages of low
resolution must be weighed gainst how
the images are going to be used.

Batteries in all four cameras should
be good for at least 100 shots, so that’s
not much of a worry. A word to the
wise — the LCDs in the Casio, and the D-
200L bum up a lot of power. The D-200L
especially seemed to be a juice hog going
through a set of batteries after shooting
just 20 pictures.

• Spice up your e-mail. Granted, the internet allows for
a certain measure of anonymity, but why languish in
obscurity when you can clone your head onto Brad
Pitt’s manly man torso and... on second thought, that’s
pretty pathetic. Attach snapshots of yourself smiling and
the world smiles with you.

• Fool your friends! Drop a few photos of your closest
pals into your favorite layout program and in no time:
faux “wanted" posters. Put up a few around the ol’ post
office, stand back and watch hilarity ensue. Note: check
your local and federal statutes.

• Create an on-line vacation photo album. Take your
very own road trip. Pack up the family truckster, dump
off the kids and/or animals and get yer motor runnin’. If
you have a laptop and a modem, you can see the sights
by day and post them on your server by night. For a
great example, check out Stephen R. Banks’s trip to
Disney World at http://www.neosoft.com/sbanks/
vacation/vacation . html .

• Become a ’zinester/’zinestress. Tired of slick maga-
zines full of nothing but pouty underfed perfume mod-
els? Make your own magazine. Document your scene
and maybe some day busloads of tourists will cruise the
very streets you used to walk before you got filthy rich
and moved next door to Mick dagger.

• Catalog your stuff! I know it doesn’t sound glam-
orous, but since you’re not paying for film processing,
you can’t afford not to document all your high-tech and
low-fi gadgets for when the unthinkable occurs. Don’t
forget to put your image disks in a safe place. (Zen tip:
contemplate how to take a photo of your digital camera
and reach nirvana within hours!)

For fans of David Lynch’s “Twin
Peaks” vibe, ntight I suggest a
tour through Humboldt County’s
mega-wooded Avenue of the Giants.

Driving into the old logging town of
Redcrest is like driving onto Lynch’s set if
he were filming “The Hobbit.” A must-
see for any wayward traveler is the living
tree house, a roomy little crash pad
hacked out of a redwood tree by a very
determined logger. A word to the photo-
wise: The lighting on the Avenue of Giants
is pretty dark and shadowy because of...
well, because of all those giants. To deal
with this, both the QuickTake and the
PhotoPC have three flash modes:
automatic, forced, and off. Automatic
means that the camera decides if a flash
is needed; forced means that the flash
will go off when you snap the photo,
regardless of the lighting conditions. The
Olympus D-200L has a fourth flash mode
designed to deal with red eye. In this
mode, the camera emits a series of low-
power flashes before popping the big

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE ISO’S forced flash
brought out some of the detail in the shadows
around the treehouse entrance and helped fill in
the image.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC’S fill flash helped bring
out the detail in the darker areas around the tree,
and the camera showed good color balance and
nice detail.

CASIO: WHILE THE QV-10A was able to do a good
job with the subject standing in the photo, the
shadows were all but black without the benefit of
a secondary light source.

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cameras

flash. These pre-flashes make the subject’s
pupils contract, so the eyes don’t reflect as
much of the bright light. Although the
QV-lOA doesn’t have a flash, it does give
you the option of choosing between an
aperture setting of F8 (a small-iris setting
useful for brighter light) or F2.8 (a large-
iris setting useful for darker areas). The
other three cameras do not allow you to
choose an aperture, which may be good
or bad depending on your camera knowl-
edge and how much thought you want to
put into it. To help you out, the QV-lOA
will tell you when Ae shot will result in an
over- or underexposed image.

Shooting in heavy shade on an over-
cast morning against a dark background
of redwood trees, I used the forced flash
to try to bring out some of the textured

HOW

They Work

Digital cameras capture image information in much the
same way a digital scanner does. Light, whether reflected
(in the case of a flatbed scanner) or directed through a
camera lens, travels through red, green, and blue color fil-
ters, striking light-sensitive elements, collectively called a
charge-coupled device (CCD). On flatbed scanners and
high-resolution studio cameras, the CCD contains a single
row of elements and slowly travels the image area record-
ing information line by line. Anyone who has tried to will a
flatbed to scan faster can see the inherent problem in
shooting a football game with a high-res digital device.
Cameras that shoot in “real time” must expose an entire
grid of photo elements at once to capture the image
immediately. Because less information is being collected,
this method produces lower-resolution images. Once the
image information is collected, the camera converts the
CCD’s electrical charges into digital information ,or pixels.

OuT of Your Pixels

Photoshop (or some other Image-retouching software
tool) can be invaluable in helping you make your images
come alive. Each digital image is made up of colored dots
called pixels. Think of the pixels in your raw image as your
paycheck after you cash it. Some pixels are $20s. Some
pixels are $5s. You start out with a certain amount of cash
when you get off work, and everything that happens to
you afterward is going to change that The Idea here Is to
get Into a real good head space by Saturday night and still
have money left to pay the rent. Every tweak that you sub-
ject your photo to is going to affect your cash flow until
you’re left flat with a pocket full of $1 bills.

Fortunately, you can often bring your photo into line
with a modicum of spending. Some tips on how to get the
best out of your pixels in Photoshop follow.

54 MacADDICT

background — il left on automatic, the
camera might have thought there
was enough light and that a flash wasn’t
needed. The QuickTake and the PhotoPC
both produced good msages, but shadows
in the QV-lOA image were all but black.
(We were unable to test the Olympus at
this site due to scheduling problems.)

As we tooled on past the towering
redwoods, I got to thinking how this cen-
tury will probably be known as the last
golden ^e of the road trip. From a soci-
ety that didn’t venture too far from the
homestead to the car-crazy ’50s, ’60s,
and ’70s, and now back again as more
people are taking the info autobahn
offramp to leisure, a lot of cool
Americana may be left high and dry. I’m
talking about the last true vestige of the
roadside entrepreneurial spirit: the
drive-through tree. As more and more
people poured onto North Coast high-
ways, a strange phenomenon manifested
itself. Perhaps it was some Freudian
thing. All these towering giants can make
an otherwise well-adjusted motorist feel
a little insignificant. The drive-through
tree was bom out of the public’s need to
feel more important.

The stretch of 101 between Leggitt
and Klamath boasts a plethora of these
automotive oddities. Taking drive-
through tree photos found us shooting
from an area of bright overhead light
against a dark background. This brought
out the QV-lOA’s bummer No. 2: The
camera does not have a camera-style
optical view finder.

Seeing your photos on the LCD while
they’re still in the camera is really cool —
when you can see them, which is not the
case in bright sunlight (although the LCD
can be seen under less intense lighting
conditions) . Before I learned not to try to
get the LCD image to look good before I
took the shot, I blew out a lot of images
using the manual exposure adjustment.

The D-200L also has an LCD display
build into the camera; however, it also
has a standard fixed viewfinder. The LCD
was designed mainly to view photos after
the fact, which is a nice feature, consid-
ering the storage capacity of the camera.
With a preview feature available in the
field, you don’t end up carrying around
bad shots at the expense of other shots
you could be taking. The Olympus per-
formed the best here, providing images
with sharp edges, nice detail, and good
color, with the Epson coming in a close
second. The QuickTake did OK, but its
images were a bit fuzzy.

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE 150’s image
caught nice tree bark details.

CASIO: THE QV-IOA’s interpolated Images
hurt the scene’s finer lines.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC handled both
foreground and background detail well.
OLYMPUS: THE D-200L also showed off
Its ability to capture a sharp image with
good color balance.

The Devil

Another anomaly of the great
northern highway is the ever-
present burl store. Every
cousin with a patch of ground along the
side of the road from Orick to the
California-Oregon border has his own
shop, stand, or pile of burl. Any object
you can possibly think of can be found
here, carved out of the knobby wood,
usually with a chainsaw.

Here we tried to show how the
cameras captured a still-life scene with
varied textures, colors, shadow, and
highlight detail. Some of the texture
detail in the QuickTake’s redder tones
appears mottled. A look at the color
channels in Adobe Photoshop shows
more noise in the blue channel of this
photo than of the other two photos. The
QV-lOA photo shot at F8 shows the best
contrast yet isn’t as sharp as the others.
The PhotoPC and the D-200L came
pretty close with good combinations of
color balance and sharpness.

APPLE: ALTHOUGH SALVAGEABLE in an
image-editing program, the QuickTake
150’s image was overly dark.

CASIO: THE QV-10A had the best
contrast but didn’t hold as much detail
as the other cameras.

OLYMPUS: THE D-200L, like the PhotoPC,
did a good job with color and detail but
didn’t produce the best contrast.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC CAUGHT images
that were lighter than the QuickTake’s,
and it came away with good color and
detail as well.

APPLE

CASIO

One of the best ways to improve a digital photo is to get
the tonal range right. To do that, avoid Photoshop’s
Brightness/Contrast controls. Why kill a bug with a truck
when a hammer will do? These linear controls affect your
tonal range by stretching or limiting your overall range of
color values, resulting in less opportunity for detail.

Instead, choose the eyedropper tool in the Toolbox and
then go Into the Cun/es menu. (If you don’t choose the
eyedropper tool first, you won’t be able to use it
for adjustments.)

Use the nonlinear
Curves dialog box
to adjust your color
tones by selecting
Adjust-Curves from
the Image menu (or
just hit command-
M). Often, the only
thing you need to
do to spruce up that
snapshot Is to set
a highlight and
shadow point. This
process gives you
the best tonal range for your photo and can correct
some color problems.

To set your highlight values, click on the lightest point in
your image. Especially nice are items that you know are
supposed to be white, In this case the white strip In the flag.
The same goes for setting your shadow point.

SELECT THE EYEDROPPER tool beforo
going to the Curves dialog box.

ONCE YOU HAVE the
eyedropper and you
open the Curves
dialog box, you can
set your highlight
value by clicking on
the lightest point In
the Image, preferably
something white.

SETTING THE shadow
point Is much the
same, only you should
select the darkest
part of the Image with
the eyedropper.

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cameras

in shooting faraway objects in direct
sunlight. A forced flash helped alleviate
the greenish cast to the photo and bring
out the “skin” tones in Paul Bunyan in the
QuickTake, D-200L, and PhotoPC shots.
The QV-lOA shot suffered from not having
a secondary light source (there was no
way to fill in shadowy areas, so they sim-
ply turned black), and again the LCD was
hard to see in the sunlight.

are old and fragile.” The QV-lOA was able
to pick up the ambient light in the room at
F2.8, and the D-200L automatically
opened .up to capture decent images,
whereas the other two cameras could not
read the room without a flash. Upon
closer inspection, the Native American
mannequins seemed to be made of some
kind of hide. We got the hell out of there.

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE 150 came away
with decent images, considering the color
cast that fluorescent lights can add.

CASIO: THE QV-lOA did well up close,
showing good contrast and color under
adverse lighting.

OLYMPUS: THE D-200L handled detail
quite well, as shown in the bars. The color,
however, did suffer a little.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC created an Image
with good detail and lighting (just a
fraction lighter than the QuickTake).

Tip 2:

olorCasts

Use that eyedropper tool that you thoughtfully picked
up before getting this far and take a reading off of some-
thing in the photo by clicking the eyedropper in the neutral
area~a white shirt, a gray sidewalk, Switzerland. Check out
the numbers in your RGB color picker (available In the
Window menu under Palettes-Show Picker). If the values of
red, green, and blue aren’t almost equal, you have a color
cast. The sliders in the picker should give you a good idea
of what channel needs to be altered. Go to that channel in
Curves and hit your neutral spot again. This will show you
at what point on the curve
you should start to tweak.

Until you develop a feel-
ing for how tweaking the
different color channels will
affect the others, the
Variations dialog box
( I m ag e- Ad j u st-
Variations) gives you
an array of thumbnails
showing what adding
or subtracting each
color will do.

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After fortifying ourselves with
more coffee, we set out for
the Mecca of roadside cheese.
Perched alongside 101 between Klamath
and Crescent City sits the amazing, colos-
sal Trees of Mystery. I have to admit that
although I’ve been there many times, I’ve
never actually paid to see the so-called
mysterious trees. For me, the big thrill is
the giant Paul Bunyan and his humungous
blue ox. What these two are doing so far
from Brainerd, Minnesota, is beside the
point. All four cameras performed well

At the end of every good American
road trip lies a ^ shop. Despite
the manual’s warnings against
shooting under fluorescent lights, all four
cameras performed well. The QV-lOA and
the D-200L come with a macro feature
that allows for detail close up. The
QuickTake comes with a “snap-on” lens
(read: “lost” on any road trip). The
PhotoPC has a threaded inner ring above
the lens where you can screw on 37mm
video camera lenses if you want to get up
close and personal. You’ll have to buy,
beg, or borrow a lens to take advantage of
close-up shots for the PhotoPC.

Both the D-200L and the QV-10 pulled
ahead of the other two cameras inside the
End of the Trail museum, where there sits
a pair of the strangest mannequins I have
ever seen. They look like a leathery old
Native American couple with a sign that
reads, “Please, no flash photography, we

APPLE: THE QUICKTAKE ISO
produced reasonable “skin”
tones with a flash.

CASIO: WITHOUT A FLASH,
the QV-lOA couldn’t quite
handle shadow areas.

EPSON: THE PHOTOPC picked
up alee color in the green and
red zones* " |

OLYMPtUg THE 0-200L turned
out a nice, If dark, Image.

OLYMPUS

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The End of the Trail was most
definitely the end of the road.
Two of the cameras come with a
handy-dandy program to ease image
downloading onto the Mac. The
QuickTake comes bundled with Storm
Software’s PhotoFlash, a pretty intuitive
little program that allows you to do
some basic image manipulation and
color correction.

Offloading the images is as easy as
opening PhotoFlash, loading thumbnails
of the images in the camera, and click-
ing on the photos you want on your hard
drive. Each photo took about a minute
to download from the camera onto the
Mac. Photos can be saved by subject
into an on-screen catalog, which looks
like a color contact sheet. PhotoFlash
supports scripting for placing the
images directly into most page layout
programs and allows im^es to be saved
in PICT, TIFF, JPEG, or EPS format,
which ensures they will fit just about
anywhere.

The PhotoPC comes with its own
imaging software, called EasyPhoto.
Like PhotoFlash, EasyPhoto has an
option of bundling like-minded photos
together in groups, called Galleries.
Someone at Epson thought it would be
really cool to make the galleries look
like a strip of film, which pre-empts
seeing thumbnails of all of the images at
once. The program does have an inter-
esting feature that will create galleries
for you by finding similar shots or
similar words or phrases in the photo
titles. However, I found that the similar
shots were usually right next to each
other in the gallery in which I originally
downloaded them, and the program
often still couldn’t find them.

Again, like PhotoFlash, the real keen
feature of EasyPhoto is its Photo-
shopesque Workshop. Both programs
allow for simple cropping and color,
brightness, and contrast adjustment
without the mega-drive space and wallet
impact of true Photoshop. Unlike
PhotoFlash, EasyPhoto supports only two
file types. You can save photos as either
JPEG (default) or PICT.

The QV-lOA came to the party carry-
ing only a Photoshop plug-in and a very
simple camera-to-Mac application that
doesn’t allow for tweaking images. The
QV-MAC program will create photo

albums, but the thumbnail images are
pretty small. On the upside, each photo
takes only a few seconds to import into
the Mac. An interesting feature of the QV-
lOA allows you to display photos singu-
larly or in shde-show mode on a televi-
sion with a video input. This is great for
those crazy multimedia acid test shows in
the living room. Woo Hoo!

The D-200L comes with a Photoshop
plug-in that worked quite nicely. Once
you connect to the camera from
Photoshop, a proof sheet automatically
pops up, showing thumbnails of all the
images in the camera’s memory. You
can then pick and choose which images
you want to download and which you
want to delete.

All four cameras we tested allow you
to add a touch of personality to just about
any project your fevered brain can
muster up. Anyone with limited
Photoshop knowledge can take the
photos firom any of the three programs
and within seconds have Net-ready GIF or
JPEG images. Our favorite point-and-
shoot (figuring in ease of use, image reli-
ability, and cool post-road trip software
tweakability) would have to be Epson’s
PhotoPC, with the Olympus coming in a
close second. The PhotoPC gave us all-
around better image quality with fewer
hassles than Apple’s QuickTake or Casio’s
QV-lOA, and it idn’t eat batteries fike the
Olympus did. It’s a great piece of digital
equipment that any asphalt running
caffeine junkie would be proud to take
on the road.

CASIO’S PHOTO-
SHOP plug-in
allows you to see
all the images
simultaneously.

EASYPHOTO LETS YOU do some basic Image editing. Unfortunately,
you can see only a few images in the gallery at one time.

ro5d trip/ 1 /apple \

PHOTOFLASH MAKES CONTACT sheets that Show all
your images at once, and the program is scriptable.

Tip 3:

or Snaipen the Image

' .t

To lighten or darken the overall image after
you have a pretty good color balance, use the
RGB curve. Remember, it’s not brain surgery,
and you can always go back (you did save
your original image, right?), so yank away!
There’s only one way to get a feeling for what
the controls do — use them.

■ . Also, most digital images need a quick
sharpen. The best way to make them snappy-
happy pappies is with the Unsharp Mask filter
(Filter-Sharpen-Unsharp Mask...). This filter
tells Photoshop to look at all neighboring pix-
els, and if their tonal values are far enough
apart, to boost the contrast between them

even further In a effort to define an edge. The
amount control affects how intense the haloing
effect will be, whereas the radius control deter-
mines how wide it can be. The threshold con-
trol is what tells the program how far apart the
pixels have to be before it thinks there is an
edge. Start with a low threshold value between
two and four to achieve sharper images.

On the downside, sharpening tends to
bring out noise In the shadow areas. For an
example of noise, compare your blue channel
with the other two. It’s a fine line between
sharp and shineola. Only experience is going
to keep your shoes clean.

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cameras

First of all, let me wimp out a bit by
saying that pitting digital point-and-
shoots against their filmic cousins is
a lot like pitting Mothra against the venerable
lizard king Godzilla. They are both cool mon-
sters, but Mothra’s the new kid on the block.
Come on, Godzilla’s been encased in a block
of ice for millions of years, working on his
shtick. He's got it down. That said, there are
a lot of good reasons to watch the digital
corner in the years to come.

• You will nevef have to buy film again. Or
go to buy film and find out the store is
closed on the morning of... (insert once-
in-a-lifetime event here).

• No harsh developing chemicals to worry
about. Do the earth a favor. Silver should
be in your Mama’s turquoise jewelry, not
in the water supply.

• You get your photos instantly. No more
waiting for the lab to get around to
developing your film. (Why does black-
and-white film take a week to process
when It was simple enough to do in high

school photo class?) Great for those
pesky deadlines!

No more scratched or faded negatives.
Digital images will always look exactly the
same unless you lose the disks.

Which brings us to backups. How many
extra sets of important negatives have you
ever owned? Safe backups of your cher-
ished moments or blackmail material are
as easy as dragging an icon.

Of course, film cameras are not going to
be consigned to the garage sale table any-
time soon. There are still many reasons the
traditional medium is not pulling a fade.
Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money!
Digital cameras still cost two arms and a
leg more than the standard 35mm point-
and-shoot. But then who remembers the
pocket calculator when it first appeared?
Granted, it will be some time before the
technology becomes cheap enough to
put a digital chicken in every pot.

Storage. Until digital cameras come with
removable storage that rivals the ease

and flexibility of changing a roll of film,
intrepid digital photographers can’t ven-
ture too far away from the computer.
“National Geographic” isn’t about to drop
someone in the middle of the Congo with
the capacity to store only 16 high-
resolution images at a time.

Photo quality and flexibility. So far only
images from mega-expensive professional
cameras can approach the clarity and
resolution of the most basic film camera.
With a few exceptions, most high-quality
digital cameras are going to be found in
the studio rather than on the sidelines.

' No dependency on computers. Addicted
as we are, it is easy to forget that not every-
one has a computer on which to download
their digital photo album. Until the local
Fotomat jumps on the bandwagon, you’re
not going to entice everyone to join the
pixel parade. Q

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his band between road trips.

Name

Resolution

1 Images stored

; Flash

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) Price

Apple:

QuickTake 150

640 x 480
640 x 480

] 16 high res

1 32 low res

1 Yes

1 Optical

I $599

Agfa:

ePhoto 307

640 X 480
320x240

1 36 high res

I 72 low res

1 Yes
1
(

1 Optical
1
(

! $599

Casio:

QV-10A

480x240

j 96

j No
1

1 1.8" LCD

— I

I $399

QV-30 Telephoto

480x240

1 96

1 No

i 2.5" LCD

I $649

QV-100

640 X 480
320 X 240

1 64 high res

1 192 low res

1 No
1

1 1.8" LCD

I $629

Epson: PhotoPC

640 X 480
320 X 240

I 16 high res

J 32 low res

1 Yes
1
1

~ ~i

I Optical

.. !.

1 $399

PhotoPC 500

640 x 480
320x240

1 30 high res

1 60 low res

j Yes

I Optical or
I optional LCD

1 $500

1 Fujifilm:

DS-7

640X480

1 30 high res

1 60 low res

i No
1
1

I LCD

1 $699

1 Kodak:

DC20

493 X 373
320 x 240

1 Up to 16

1 No
1

I Optical

1 $299

1
I

DC25

493x373
320 x 240

I 14 high res

1 29 low res

' Yes

I Optical or
I LCD

j $499

DC40

756x504

1 48

1 Yes

I Optical

1 $599

DC50 Zoom

756 X 504

1 22 high compression

j 1 1 medium compression

1 Yes
1
1

I Optical

I $899
1

1 Olympus: D-200L

640X480

320x240

I 20 high res

I 80 low res

1 Yes
1

I Optical or LCD

j $599

D-300L

640 x 480

I 1,024x768 high res

j 512x384 low res

1 Yes
1

I Optica! or LCD

1 $849

Sony:

DSC-F1

640x480

j 108

1 Yes

j LCD

] $849

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ac Plus

By T. Kelley Boylan

Welcome to “This Old Mac,” our new series for those of you who have older-
model Macs that you want either to put back into use or to upgrade. We’ll
tell you exactly what you can still do with aging Macs, how to upgrade
them, and where to get the software and hardware you need. We’ll even tell you how

much all of it will cost. This article, the first in our series, discusses what to do with a Mac

Plus, the oldest still-useful Mac around.

The Mac Plus, a quaint gadget, is usually
relegated to a closet or life as a fish tank. And
although it does make a fine fish tank (see
http://www.nku.edu/~mcohen/mac
quarium.html), there’s life iri that putty-
colored box yet. Here’s how to set up a Mac
Plus for Internet access, word processing,
and simple graphics. Note that most of this
advice works for a Mac SE as well.

FIND

SHAREWARE
and demos
on The Disc.

CHECK THE
WEB SITE
for helpful
links.

What You Have to Work With:

4MB Of RAM.

That’s it, folks, no
more unless. . .

A 68000
processor

blazing along at 0.8 MIPS (mil-
lions of instructions per second).
A PowerBook 540 does 29 MIPS,
3,600 percent faster. Let’s not
even ponder what PowerPC
processors can do.

No internal hard drive.

There’s no place to plug it m.

Black-and-white, nine-
inch display.

Standard connectors:

two serial ports and a SCSI port.

Now you’re thinking, “Fish tank,
here I come!” But wait; it’s stili a
computer. It’s no Photoshop mon-
ster and it chokes on Word
6, but it still mixes text with
graphics, still prints WYSIWYG
images, still communicates via a
modem, and still runs System soft-
ware. It also still stores data on a
SCSI device. What more do you
want? (Don’t answer that.)

Believe it or not, there are
companies that use Pluses to run

their whole businesses; see Guy
Kawasaki’s Evangelist site at
<http://www.evangelist.mac
addict.com> for details. Granted,
you won’t be rendering 3D images
on a Plus, but no one rendered
them 1 1 years ago when a Plus sold
for more than $2,000! Somewhere
in the world are your offline Mends
and relatives, cold and lonely and
not on the Net. A refurbished Plus
costs nearly nothing (about $90
without a keyboard or a hard
drive) and can give those poor lost
souls at least e-mail.

62 MacADDICT

What To Do About Hardware

RAM: Believe
it or not, four
megs is enough
to run useful
software. Natu-
rally, there’s a catch. (There’s
always a catch). If you have an
early-model Mac Plus, it may not be
able to see all 4MB of RAM. Under
the Apple menu, open About This
Macintosh (or its System 6 equiva-
lent, About The Finder) to see how
much RAM your Mac thinks it has.
If it says less than 4MB and you
know you have 4MB installed, pre-
pare for surgery. The only way to be
sure all four are really there is to
open the case and look.

If all four RAM slots are filled
and your Plus says you have only
1MB or perhaps 2.5MB of memory,
it’s time to cut. Use a number 8 Torx
wrench to open the case. There are
two screws under the handle, two
along the bottom of the case, and
one screw under the battery.
BEnnnilSI FidcUmg with a com-
pact Mac’s innards is risky busi-
ness. The monitor’s CRT (cathode
ray tube) stores enough electricity
to make you lay down and be still
for an extremely long time
(approximately forever). Don’t
open it unless you
Imow what’s in there.

Once the case is off,
ferret out resistors R8
and R9 on the logic
board. The labels R8
and R9 are marked on
the motherboard itself.

If either location has a
resistor, snip it with a
pair of wire cutters. If
only one is installed, cut
it. If both are installed,
cut both. In later Pluses,
the resistors weren’t
even installed.

Storage: older
Macs such as the 128K
and 512K don’t have a SCSI connec-
tor, but a Plus does. Use any external
SCSI drive, up to two terabytes total
(think of a terabyte as a thousand
1GB hard drives). That’s as much
storage as System 7.5.5 can see, and
on a Plus, that’s enough.

You’ll need to reformat the hard

drive or else it will be insufferably
slow. Here’s why. On faster Macs,
such as those wiA a 68030 or faster
processor, a drive can be formatted
so that data is written to and read
fi*om the disk on each complete
rotation. This means that the drive
has an interleave of 1:1. Older Macs
such as the Plus, however, have
slower processors. If a drive were
formatted with an interleave of 1:1,
it would be completely out of sync
with the speed at which the proces-
sor could man^e data. The result
would be very slow data reads and
writes — for example, slowdowns
when opening files or saving data.

To reformat a new drive, use a
utility such as Apple’s HDSC. Put
the utility on a bootable floppy
disk, insert the floppy into the Mac
Plus, and restart. HDSC will auto-
matically set the interleave to 3:1.
If HDSC can’t see the drive, hook
the drive to another Mac and use a
tool such as Anubis (CharisMac,
916-885-4420) or Hard Disk
Toolkit (FWB, 415-325-4392) to
reformat it. You’ll need to manu-
ally set the interleave to 3:1.
There’s a specific setting for it,
such as this one from FWB’s Hard
Disk Toolkit:

SCSI Formatting Options

Block Size : | 512
Interleave: I j

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r*l Disable Factory Defects
n Disi^le Certification

[f Cancel j| f OK |

IF YOU BUY
to reformat

A NEW HARD DRIVE FOR YOUR PLUS, you’ll need
it and set the interleave to 3:1 .

Given that a Plus is an elderly
device, consider an Iomega Zip
or Jaz, SyQuest Syjet, or other
removable-media drive for storage.

Why? There are four reasons:

1 . New hard drives are fast, and a
Plus just isn’t fast enough to use that
speed. Removable-cartridge drives

such as the Zip are a tad slower and,
therefore, a better match.

2. If you have another Mac, you can
use the removable media for back-
ups. If not, you can use it to back up
your Plus.

3. You probably won’t need tons
and tons of storage room on a Mac
Plus — maybe even less than 200MB
for just text or Internet access — so a
1GB drive is overkill.

4. One day your trusty Plus may die.
On that sad day, you’ll still have a
handy device left over.

Video: You’re pretty much
stuck with the basic black-and-
white, nine-inch display. At one time,
some vendors made SCSI video
adapters that let you display eight
predefined colors on an external
monitor. However, these are now
very hard to find, and because they
are slow and hog your SCSI port, we
don’t recommend using them.

Modem: Any modem will
work; just make sure that the cable
can connect the Mac’s serial port
with the modem.

The modem’s another place to
save money. A Plus, serial port runs
at a maximum of 9,600 baud, so
there’s no need to invest in a
28.8Kbps or even a l4.4Kbps mo-
dem. Cost: less than
$50 for the modem,
$10 for a cable.

Printer: Most

printers will work,
from Apple’s old
ImageWriters to new
LaserWriters. Look into
used inkjets such as
Hewlett-Packard’s
DeskWriter and Apple’s
StyleWriter H — they

cost as little as $130.
(Caveat: StyleWriters
newer than the n need
an ’020 or faster
processor.) Finding the
software driver to make
your Mac talk to your printer is not
so simple. Before you buy a printer,
call the manufacturer and try to
locate an old driver; newer versions
are RAM-hungry in a big way. A
DeskWriter, for example, works fine
on a Plus with the DeskWriter driver
3.1, which is still available from HP.

Hot Tip:

Some Quantum drives
aren’t happy on a Plus.
Unit attention must be
turned off. Anubis and
Hard Disk Toolkit both
give you access to such
low-level settings.

More sources
for old Macs...

■ Check <newsgroupcomp.sys.
mac.forsale>

■ Also look in local newsgroups;
e.g., <yo£/rc/fy.forsale>

■ Use your favorite search engine
to search for “used mac”

■ Peruse the phone book under
“Computers, Used”

■ Watch the newspaper’s “for sale”
section

■ Ask around — ^you may be sur-
prised by how many people have
old computers stashed in the
closet that they’ll just give away

For more ideas

How else can you use a Mac Plus
(or Mac SE)? Point your browser
to <http://members.aol.com/jeff
wtzmn/index.html>. Jeff Weitzman
has kindly created a list of ideas
that includes the following:

■ Internet server

■ Fax machine and/or
fax-back server

■ Network monitor

■ Data acquisition

■ Stock and financial monitor

■ Model train controller

■ Master controller for
a “SmartHome”

■ Bathroom Mac, for the
true Macaholic

■ Decorative glass brick

63 MacADDICT

old mac

Hot Tip:

Believe it or not, you
can make a Plus into
a full-blown Internet
site. Point to < http://
members.aol.com/
trickys/connect.html>
for the lowdown.

Hardware sources

Contact several vendors when
you shop, and ask about war-
ranties and return policies, just in
case. This list Isn’t connprehen-
sive, but It’s a good place to start:

The Computer Exchange

800-304-4639

http://www.compexch.com

DataTech Remarketing

800-281-3661

datatecrem@aol.com

GE Capital Computer
Remarketing Services
800-431-7716
http://www.ge.com/capital/
commequlp/es

Hawke Business Systems
800-875-2610

Mac«Res«Q

510-689-9488

http://www.macresq.com

IViacSale International
800-729-7031

http://wvm.getnet.com/macsale

Pre-Owned Electronics
800-274-5343

Shreve Systems
800-227-3971

http://www.shrevesystems.com/

welcome.html

Sun Remarketing

800-821-3221

http://www.sunrem.com

Networking: AppleTalk

works just fine, but if you absolutely
must have Ethernet, SCSI-to-
Ethemet adapters exist. They’re
rare, and I mean rare. The trick is
finding one with an external power
supply, because a Plus doesn’t put
power through the SCSI port.

Accelerators: You can
speed up a Plus, but don’t spend a
lot of money on it, no more than
$90. Some vendors, such as
Brainstorm and Sonnet Technol-
ogies, offer accelerators for the SE.

Sonnet’s $199 Allegro SE replaces
the SB’s 8MHz 68000 processor with
a 33MHz 68030 and gives you an
expanded memory capacity of
16MB. If you spend more, you might
as well buy a new, faster machine.
When you call used-hardware
vendors, ask about these makers
(some are out of business):
Brainstorm, 415-988-2900,
http://www.brainstorm.net
Dove (out of business)
MicroMac, 800-600-6227,
http://www.micromac.com

Mobius, 800-662-4871, http://
www.mobius.com

NewLife (out of business)

Novy Systems (out of business)
Sonnet Technologies, 800-786-
6260, http://www.sonnettech.com
Fans: if you speed your Plus
up, you may need to cool it down. Its
failure-prone power supply will be
extra stressed, so look into a used
fan (Kensington, 800-535-4242,
http://www.kensington.com) . Do
you need a fan? No. But for $20 or
less, it might be a good investment.

What To

System
software:

System 7.5.3 and
7.5.5 work fine,
though not all their parts do. For
example, if you install System soft-
ware from another Mac and include
Open Transport and QuickDraw GX,
they’ll vanish. Their icons become
invisible. You can use a utility to
make their icons visible, but they
still won’t work (you won’t need
them anyway). Use Apple’s MacTCP
for Net access, and it’s not likely any
applications that support QuickDraw
GX will even run on aPlus.

You might be tempted to install
an older version of the System soft-
ware that requires less memory. But
most of the apphcations you’ll be
running on your Plus require some
flavor of System 7. The memory sav-
ings isn’t worth the hassle of track-
ing down applications that can run
under an older System.

According to Apple, System
7.5.5 is the last 68000-compatible
system, but don’t worry about it.
Once your machine’s up and run-
ning, make a pair of backups and
keep them in separate places. Ten
years from now that Plus will still do
text and graphics.

Internet software: People
all over the world have cobbled
together Mac Plus Internet tools.
Matti Haveri contributed to this par-
ticular list.

Connectivity: Apple’s MacPPP

2.0. 1 {not FreePPP) and MacTCP

2.0. 6. Other combinations may
work, but these are a sure shot.

Do About

Web: NCSA Mosaic 1.0.3 or
MacWeb (shareware). No guaran-
tees. These programs work on some
machines and crash on others.

Mail: Qualcomm’s Eudora or
Eudora Lite, the shareware LeeMail,
or the shareware Pegasus.

News: the shareware News-
watcher, any recent version (others
may also work).

ftp: Fetch or Anarchic, any
recent version.

AOL: Version 2.1... if you can
find it. America Online isn’t distrib-
uting it and is phasing out 2.1
access, so don’t set up an account
assuming you’ll have connectivity at
your fingertips. According to AOL,
you won’t have Net access at all.

CompuServe Information
Manager: Any recent version.

Productivity software:

You can perform most of the basic
productivity tasks, in style, on a Mac
Plus. Here are the applications that
work best.

Word processing; Claris’s
MacWrite, T/Maker’s WriteNow,
ClarisWorks, Microsoft Works 3.x
and Microsoft Word 5.1. Word 6
is out; it won’t run on a 68000
processor.

Database: ClarisWorks.

Spreadsheet: ClarisWorks,

Microsoft Excel 4.0.

Graphics: Claris’s MacDraw,
ClarisWorks.

Communications: The share-
ware Zterm and White Knight.

Utilities and tools: These
tools are good ones, no matter what
kind of Mac you use. Be sure to have

Software

Apple’s Disk First Aid and HDSC, and
Symantec’s Norton Utilities 2.0.

Games: There is life without
speedy color! The shareware Con-
tinuum and Sierra Online’s Lode
Runner (older versions are still
shareware) are dandy twitch games,
and for a slower pace, try Semicolon
Software’s Solitaire ’til Dawn. These
and tons more are at <flp://flp.funet.
fi/pub/raac/games>. Also check out
<http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/
mac/recreation/classicmacgames.
html>. Hey, these aren’t just games
lists, they’re old games lists. Most
games are 1992 and earlier, which
means most are black and white, and
68000 compatible.

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no other hard-
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and printing — ^for about $240.
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printer, and a modem with cable.

If you need productivity tools,
ClarisWorks 4.0 is the most compre-
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back less than $90 (street price). If
that’s too much, Claris sells version
2.0 for only $29.

And that’s all there is to it. □

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books and articles, and is a Mac admin-
istrator when he’s not writing. He owns
and uses Macs exclusively.

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Photoshop 4.0

DEVELOPER: Adobe

CONTACT: 800-492-3623; http://www.adobe.com
PRICE: $700 (street), $149 upgrade from version 3
REQUIREMENTS: 68020 or faster (68040 or PowerPC recommended), 6MB of
RAM (11MB of RAM fot PowerPCs), System 7.0 or later, 20MB of hard disk
space for Photoshop’s Virtual Memory scheme

t’s been two years since Photoshop has had a major upgrade, five
years since the program jumped more than half an integer.
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 is in many ways the least significant major
upgrade to Photoshop ever, but what has changed will dramatically
improve the way you use the software.

To many users, many of Photoshop 4’s strengths initially will
appear to be weaknesses, managing to both disappoint and frustrate
veterans of version 3.0. The toolbox has been reorganized, and along
with it, the standard key commands used for manipulating selections.
For example, command-Y now selects the Pencil tool rather than the
Type tool, and switching between Layer and Mask for editing is now
done by pressing command-backslash for the former and command-
grave/tilde for the latter. Many of the tools remain the same, but in
place of the old “Option-click to switch” method of changing tools in
each slot, the more practical, Adobe Illustrator-like “pop-out tools”
are used. Illustrator users will also find the new key commands entic-
ing; jumping between the two programs is even easier. For instance,
the command key now always accesses the Move tool (analogous to
Illustrator’s Selection tool). Shift always adds. Option always dupli-
cates. The relearning curve is steep but short, and after a few hours of
muttering and undoing, you’ll find that the new setup is more conve-
nient and practical. To
make the transition a wee
bit smoother, different
cursors (which, despite
their small size, accurately
convey what will happen
when you cUck/drag)
appear when you hold
down the different modifier
keys with each tool.

In addition, Adobe
replaced the basic, sim-
ple, yet useful Commands
palette with a much more
powerful, but complex,
Actions palette. In the
palette you define
an “action” — multiple

THAT’S A BIG TRUCK: The Navigator palette not only
helps you get around a large Image (just drag the red
square) but also lets you zoom in or out by moving the
slider— no more going back and forth to the Zoom tool.

DEFACING SOLAR SYS-
TEM PROPERTY: The
“Home” layer contains
scrawled words and an
arrow in their actual color,
above the Adjustment
Layers, which have altered
the planet’s color. Max’s
face got caught below the
Adjustment Layers, so he
looks a little blue.

MAX PHONE HOME: So we
simply drag the “Max’s
face” layer above the
Adjustment Layer, and
voil^— he is his original
color again. We never had
to Revert. Multiply the
number of images and
layers, and the value of the
Adjustment Layer feature
heads toward priceless.

One of the most useful additions to Photoshop 4 is Adjustment Layers.
You can create, place, move, and name Adjustment Layers just as you
always did with the old-fashioned layers you know and love. The differ-
ence is, Adjustment Layers act similarly to photographic filters: within an
Adjustment Layer you can alter opacities, blending modes, Hue/
Saturation, and anything you’d normally do with layers, affecting only
those layers that lie underneath. And, if you don't like how the Adjustment
Layer you've created changes a particular layer, you can simply drag that
layer above the Adjustment Layer, and it is unaffected. With only a bit of
planning, this feature gives you the equivalent of unlimited undos (which
Photoshop 4 still doesn't offer).

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commands to be executed with one key-
stroke (or button push). This palette,
however, isn’t as intuitive or editable as most
users will expect. It records most common
keyboard commands and menu choices,
along with dialog hox settings and button
pushes, but not tool us^e and selections
(sets of predefined actions can be found on
The Disc). You can work around this,
though, by inserting a stop in an action; you
then select an area, and the action will
continue. It’s not scripting, exactly, but is
terrifically useful. For example, all the steps
that go into making a drop shadow can be
grouped as one action. You’ll still have to
make a few selections during the process,
but the action automates the majority of
filtering, layering, and more. A Batch feature
applies an action to a folder of im^es, but
this, too, is limited. You can’t automate
selections or closing while in dialog boxes
(when Printing, for example). Still,

Photoshoppers have been waiting for even a
hint of these features for a long time.

The menus also have been changed, with
a brand-new Layers menu and loads of reor-
ganizing in the others. The menus have needed an update since ver-
sion 2.5, so now the changes are much more drastic than if Adobe
implemented the modifications incrementally. And Adobe seems to
have hstened to users; many desperately needed key commands that
had been “missing” from previous versions — such as Save As,
Feather, Page Setup, and Paste Into — are now in place.

Adobe seems to have focused on fixing the previous version and
improving existing features. New features include a unique and
powerful watermark feature (see Digital Watermarks, p68), multi-
color gradients, and an end to “fixed” zoom levels; version 4.0
supports zooming to such odd views as 101, 63, and 259 percent.

Power users and novices alike will love the new Layers capabili-
ties, from the much improved redraw speeds to the hterally hidden
Big Data feature. Layers have always been a favorite feature, because
they provide a form of unlimited undo and endless adjustment, even
to saved and reopened images. Adobe has made Layers much more
usable and integral to Photoshop by automatically creating new lay-
ers instead of floating selections for several activities, such as pasting
and creating text. Big Data is Adobe’s term for keeping all the pixels
in a selection, even when those pixels move off the edge of the doc-
ument. For instance.

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IT'S NOT PAGEMAKER, BUT... The Guides & Grids feature makes it a
snap to put together Images and text In alignment. For example, you
could make a very large Image map for a Web page.

FILTERS! FILTERS! FILTERS! Photoshop 4.0 also comes with a passel of new filters, most taken from
Adobe Gallery Effects. The Texture and Artistic filters may not be as immediately useful as, say,
Unsharp Mask, but they do look good and require no more than a menu pulldown to run. (Clockwise)
The Poster Edges filter, The Sponge filter, The Stained Glass filter, The Rough Pastels filter.

if you select all, move the selection to the left and up, and then
deselect, pixels appear above and to the left of the edge of the
document. Selecting that layer again and dragging down and to the
right will reveal the “cropped” pixels. Previous versions of
Photoshop would have lost the pixels when you deselected.

Another powerful enhancement to Photoshop’s layering scheme
is Adjustment Layers, which provides a method for applying a
certain im^e adjust feature (such as Levels, Hue and Saturation, or
Curves) to one or more layers. Basically, if a layer is “below” (using
the Layers palette hierarchy) an Adjustment Layer, it is affected by
the changes in that Adjustment Layer. If it’s above, it isn’t affected.
So, you’re able to change aspects of different layers individually, or
in groups, and if you don’t fike what an R-channel tweak did to the
type but love what it did to the photo in another layer, it’s a simple
matter of dragging layers around. The wonderful thing about
Adjustment Layers is that the adjustment can be modified at any
time, so if you lightened an image too much with a Levels
Adjustment Layer, you can doubie-cfick that Adjustment Layer and
tweak the Levels settings.

The most enticing new feature may be the grids and guides.
Visible (on-screen only), snap-to grids can be set to custom
spacing and colors, and can be pulled out from the rulers at any
time. These two sorely needed features finally provide an accurate
method for precision adjustments and drawing, or even layout,
within Photoshop.

Another winning new feature is a little Navigator palette, similar
to but better integrated than Extensis’s freeware PhotoNavigator
plug-in. Adobe’s Navigator palette can serve as both a small preview
window and a way to move around a zoomed-in document without
the finstration of scroll bars or the push-push-push method of the
Hand tool.

Web designers will appreciate the new integrated 2l6-coior
Web palette for exporting GIF89a images for Web pages. No longer
must you cobble together browser-safe CLUTs. The palette is simple
to use, too: When you convert an image to Index mode, “Web” is
one of the choices.

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Digital Watermarks

Photoshop 4.0 includes a filter licensed from DigiMarc that embeds
digital watermarks within pixel>based images. You might think, “Gee, 1 don’t
want a watermark shadow changing the way my image looks.” Well, what If
that watermark were invisible to the naked eye but visible to the computer?

The watermarks created by the DigiMarc filter are almost invisible to the
naked eye. If you place the original image next to the watermarked image,
you might be able to tell a difference.

Here’s how it works; You apply the watermark (with your own custom
ID embedded within it) to the image in Photoshop 4.0. Say you then post
the image on your Web page. A few months later you spot in some ratty
publication an image that looks amazingly similar to yours. You scan it in
and run the “Read Watermark" filter, and sure enough, the ratty publication
used your image without your permission! Legal action ensues.

Weil, maybe. The watermarks that DigiMarc creates are tough; I was
able to print out a watermarked document on a black-and-white printer,
scan it in again, and the watermark was still in place. However, the acts of
applying a Gaussian blur, cropping away a substantial chunk of the image,
or even inverting the image removed most traces of the watermark
(and I got the oft-occurring message: “There’s a watermark here, but it
is unreadable.”).

The more likely scenario ends with you getting a call (or e-mail) from
someone at a reputable publication who saw your image in said ratty
publication, scanned it in themselves, discovered the watermark, and wants
to hire you to create more fantastic images (which, of course, will bear your
watermark).

Drawbacks to digital watermarking include the fact that they work well
only on continuous-tone images. Anyone who brings Adobe Illustrator or
Macromedia FreeHand images into Photoshop will be disappointed, not
because watermarks don’t work (they do) but because they leave an
unattractive “noise” residue on the image. DigiMarc currently has no plans
to implement a vector-based version of its watermarking technology.

The filter comes with Photoshop at no extra charge, but the reference
service will cost you. To check out the ID of the watermark and find your
name and contact Information, you’ll have to subscribe to DigiMarc at a
yearly rate of about $150. Fortunately, Photoshop 4 owners can try out the
service for three months free of charge.

CHECK IT OUT:

The DigiMarc filter
comes with
Photoshop 4.0, so
it’s simple to
check...

THE RIGHTFUL
OWNER: ... but you
need a live Internet
connection, and $150
a year to register.
Still, this beats no
evidence at all.

You can exclude any
action by clicking here
to make the check red.

Stop Action.

Click here to create or
delete a “Break Point”
(where you can make a

Currently

selected

Action.

command
(one step
in action).

New

Action.

Record.

Piay selected
action.

AAANNND, ACTION! The new Actions palette records a sequence of
steps and allows you to reapply a complex procedure without going
through all the steps yourself. You can even record your favorite actions
and swap with friends!

Photoshop 4 also includes the recently “acquired” Aldus Gallery
Effects plug-ins, giving you 48 new filters. Longtime users will see
many familiar categories and several new ones, including Artistic,
Brushstrokes, and Texture. Some of these filters are reminiscent of
features in Fractal Design Painter; Photoshop’s Stained Glass filter,
for example, produces an effect analogous to Painter’s Mosaic
(compensating for differences in media) , though Stained Glass is far
easier to use.

Photoshop 4 also sports a new look. Although it’s got the typical
“middle of the ’90s” 3D gray appearance, it also has a sterile, high-
tech feel. Closer inspection of the pixels reveals that the grays are
lighter than the Microsoft 50 percent, and the whites are a bit dim.
Even the highlights on the buttons have a subde, professional feel,
without even getting a litde Kai-ried away.

Two downsides to the new Photoshop are that it isn’t much faster
overall (although working with multiple layers is particularly zippy) ,
and that it still uses a zillion times more RAM than most people can
afford, especially when working with large images. Photoshop still
doesn’t support many functions that the high-end competitors — Live
Picture’s self-named Live Picture and Macromedia’s Xres —
offer, namely multiple undos. Yes, if you want to undo more than one
step in Photoshop, you still have to choose the Revert option.
However, the new layering scheme results in a system that lets you
undo activities by removing or editing layers, and Adjustment Layers
is a virtual undo nirvana.

The bottom line is that Photoshop 4 is a very solid upgrade from
version 3 that fixes many of the irregularities of previous versions.
The truly new feature set is shghtly weak for a full number upgrade,
but the enhancements to existing features more than overcome a
lack of brand-new capabilities. If you have the patience to relearn
some portions of Photoshop, you’ll greatly benefit from this
upgrade. — TedAlspach

GOOD NEWS: Radically revamped interlace. Powerful Actions
palette. Desperately needed grids and guides. Beefed-up layers
capabilities.

BAD NEWS: Radically revamped interface. Not as much really
“new” stuff as you might expect from a full number upgrade.

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FreeHand 7

DEVELOPER: Macromedia

CONTACT: 800-326-2128; http://www.macromedia.com
PRICE: $399 (street), $149 upgrade from any previous version or competitive
product, $449 for FreeHand Graphic Studio (includes Extreme 3D 2,
Fontographer 4.1, xRes 3)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC, 12MB of RAM, 25MB of hard disk
space, CD-ROM drive. System 7 or later (PostScript-compatible printer
recommended)

Anyone who is familiar with FreeHand 5 will be comfortable
with FreeHand 7. (Whatever happened to FreeHand 6,
anyway? Is it hiding with Elvis?) Certainly, the update offers
new and interesting features: Internet capabilities, multipath
blends, color autotracing, and so on. StiU, the distinctions between
versions 7 and 5.5 are thin.

The changes that do exist will be especially useful to Web devel-
opers. For example, FreeHand incorporates Macromedia’s
Shockwave, so graphic artists can create interactive Web interfaces
(viewable through the Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator or
Microsoft Internet Explorer) . Vector-based graphics are a remarkably
compact way of storing graphical information. A FreeHand document
might be an order of magnitude smaller in size than a GIF or JPEG
imdge, because the image’s information is given in a series of equa-
tions that describe the curves, not pixel by pixel, the way a bitmap
image is rendered. An immediate consequence of this approach is
that Shockwaved FreeHand graphics can be viewed at any scale with
equal resolution. Therefore, Net-based FreeHand documents are
particularly useful for creating maps, because a user can zoom in to

GOT A CODE IN THE NODE: The Macromedia Script Editor (downloadable
at Macromedia’s Web site) comes with a bunch of useful, if arcane, Java
scripts. At least a handy info box describes what each one does.

SHOW ME A SCRIPT: These Java scripts are as easy to work with as
Xtras: Just copy the scripts into the Xtra folder, and they’re accessible
from the same menu as Xtras. Just select an object and then select the
script you want to use. No code-wrangling required.

Here's the problem. You’d like to create a star that changes color along a path. You
want to make it spiky and embellish it to make it exciting. Such a feat used to be
dif cult in a drawing package such as FreeHand, because you had to position each
gradient by hand. Not anymore. With the multipath gradient capability of FreeHand
7, ali kinds of cool effects are possible with almost no work. Three, four, or more
objects can form the basis of the gradient {or morph, which in FreeHand is pretty
much the same thing), but they must have the same number of points and the same
general class of attributes fif one has a certain line thickness, so must the others).

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1. To make the spiked star, create a three-pronged star using the regular
geometric shape.

2. Duplicate this star twice, giving the center star a blue color
fill instead of red.

3. Using the Blend Xtra, blend the three stars into 22 shapes; change the density to 60

shapes—simply select the information but-
ton in the tear-off menus and change the
number of shapes created to 60.

4, Once the blend is done, make a larger five-pointed
star with neither a fill nor a line.

5. Selecting both the gradient and the five-pointed
star, choose the function Connect Blend To Path,
and the gradient will map to the path of the star to
form a truly eye-popping, stellar performance.

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any area. What’s even nicer
about working with
Shockwave is it becomes
possible to assign Internet
URLs to specific portions of a
graphic, which makes
image-map creation almost
brain-dead simple.

An added benefit of the
vector naUire of FreeHand
involves font handling. When
FreeHand compresses an
image for Web display, it also embeds fonts within the file. The
Shockwave engine on your browser then renders these fonts to dis-
play them anti-aliased; their edges appear smooth rather than ja^ed.
Combine the small file size and tlie image-map-like capabilities, and
FreeHand 7 documents become very attractive as Web resources.

For graphic designers of any stripe, one of FreeHand’s more
compelling new features is the ability to make multipath gradients.
In a pixel-based program such as Adobe Photoshop, gradients are
easy to create, because they can be calculated quickly fi:om sur-
rounding pixels. In most vector-based programs, however, creat-
ing a gradent is a time-consuming process, involving dozens of
intermediate steps. Creating multipath gradients (and even gradi-
ents of gradients) in FreeHand 7 is a snap (see Make Me a Star) .

FreeHand 7 is better integrated with Macromedia’s product line.

THE MOST VERSATILE BLENDER YET:
you can fuse shapes and colors of
multiple items, attach blend shapes,
and blend between colors.

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WANT TO WORK WITH A BITMAP IMAGE AS PATH? No problem with
Autotrace. It’s a good idea to smooth the image colors, though you’ll
end up with a slew of little paths.

Since version 5, FreeHand has supported Xtras (Macromedia’s plug-
in technology, also integrated into xRes, Authorware, and Director),
but version 7 sports an interface that will be famihar to users of other
Macromedia programs. Adobe, with its recent Photoshop revamp,
has taken the same tack. Similarly, FreeHand’s interface alteration
may temporarily frustrate longtime users, but in the long run, it
makes complex, cross-apphcation work much easier.

One new interface element is tear-off tabbed palettes, which have
been a part of Macromedia’s Extreme 3D and xRes, and presumably
will be a key part of Director 6. Such tabs are a mixed blessing. You
can drag one tab panel to another palette, creating custom groupings
of features, but all those palettes quickly clutter up a screen.
FreeHand practically demands a larger screen size in order to do
anything usefiil. Getting the color selection window to come up and
stay up was annoying. Considering how often a graphic designer
needs to change colors, this is a pain.

Another of FreeHand 7’s new features is color autotrace. Import
an image in any one of the wide variety of raster formats that
FreeHand 7 handles (Photoshop, BMPs, and the new-to-7 Net for-
mats such as JPEG and GIF), set the degree of tolerance (which
determines the number of control points), click a button, and
wham! — an instant vector form of your image. The autotrace is cool,
but be prepared to wait on non-PowerPC machines; tracing a
complex image with more that a few colors can test the patience of a
monk, and the quality isn’t always as high as you’ll want. The result
could work well, however, if you want to produce the look of a wood-
cut or serigraph.

Under the ‘Vector-nerd” category, FreeHand 7 offers a connector
type of anchor point. This point, unavailable in Adobe Illustrator,
makes a smooth transition between a straight path segment and a
curved one, or between two curves that otherwise would meet at
a sharp angle. It’s a usefiil effect, and one that requires a lot of
prestichgitation in Illustrator.

FreeHand has always been a litde friendlier with other applica-
tions than Illustrator, but version 7’s file importing and exporting is
incredible. For starters, it can import Photoshop 3.0 files as linked
resources — ^that is, a FreeHand file can contain an external link to a
complete, layered file (as of this vmting, it can’t do this with native
Photoshop 4 files, but an Xtra may be available in the future). This
means you can work with the FreeHand document without requiring
FreeHand to rotate or crop, say, a 2.5MB photo. This speeds things
considerably. If you want to embed the Photoshop file within the
FreeHand document, the layering information isn’t available to
FreeHand (in other words, it’ll be a flattened file). Illustrator gives
you only the latter option. Also, FreeHand exports to an astonishingly
large number of formats: In addition to older formats of FreeHand, it
exports to Adobe Illustrator formats (all the way back to Illustrator

XTRA, XTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT! Plug-ins seem to be the must-have for
applications today, and FreeHand comes with its own, which also work in
Director, xRes, Authorware, and Extreme 3D. Trade them with your friends!

88), JPEG, GIF, Photoshop EPS, PNG (the new Internet compression
standard), xRes, TIFF, and Targa, among others.

A couple of other noteworthy features are hiding within FreeHand
7, including a built-in chart maker. Anyone who has created charts
in a vector-based program knows the drill — endless hours of tedium
trying to get all the box heights just right, trying to get the text
formatted and the data elements in properly. FreeHand charts aren’t
terribly flashy — most spreadsheet and database programs will
create better — but a chart’s components are FreeHand elements that
you can manipulate. FreeHand also creates pictographs, charts in
which small icons represent quantities.

The final changes to FreeHand are much more subtle but no less
powerful. Macromedia worked hard to make version 7 work with
AppleScript and last year unveiled a concept the company calls MGS,
for Macromedia Common Scripting language. Several of the proper-
ties of FreeHand are “exposed” to outside programs — document
information, methods for printing, opening and saving, user infor-
mation, that sort of thing. FreeHand comes with a Java script editor
that allows anyone with Java programming experience to create
scripts. Once compiled, these scripts function in much the same way
as Xtras: They can animate a FreeHand document (by changing the
visibihty of given layers over time), create a selection based on line
width or other criteria, or change the position of components for
export to an animated Internet GIF im^e. For anyone who doesn’t
want to program from scratch, Macromedia includes template
scripts and makes others available on its Web site. Using a template
isn’t a totally code-less endeavor, though: To set parameters, you still
need to open the script editor and enter them directly into the code.
The learning curve for Java is steep, but even the simplest scripts can
do incredible things.

Although the current king of vector-based graphics, Illustrator,
undeniably has the numbers and a more elegant interface,
FreeHand 7 is a great product and offers many specific advantages.
Do you make a lot of Web graphics? Charts? Do you need the
automation capability? Do you do a lot of blending in your work?
If so, you may want to reconsider your illustrious relationship.
— Kurt Cagle

GOOD NEWS: Shockwave and Internet integration. Multipath
gradients are a great effect and are now easy to use. Scripting
in AppleScript and Java.

BAD NEWS; Screen can get crowded. Modest revision.

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PowerBook 1400c

I DEVELOPER: Apple Computer

CONTACT: 408-996-1010; http://www.apple.com
PRICE: $2,499 to $3,699

When Apple released the PowerBook 5300 in 1995, what it
should have released instead was the PowerBook 1400c. This
little beauty has features lacking in the 5300 — such as a
CD-ROM drive — ^which, in some ways, is a shame, because if the
1400 had been released a year ago, it would have been a stand-out
addition among notebook computers, PC or Mac. Even so, the 1400
is a solid machine for the price with options that users have been
lusting after for some time. We tested the l400c/117, which featured
a 117MHz PowerPC 603e, 16MB of RAM, 1GB hard drive, a 6X
CD-ROM drive, and an 11.3” active matrix display.

The Good

The prime amazorama feature of the 1 400 is the right front periph-
eral bay. Mobile Mac mavens have been looking to quench their
CD-ROM envy for some time, especially those who depend on their
’Books for CD-ROM presentations or want to listen to a disc while in
transit. Occupying the right front bay (which also serves as a floppy
drive bay or storage slot for an extra battery) , the CD-ROM drive
offers relief for those who want to do disc work. (The module can
be purchased separately by those who initially buy their 1400 with-
out a drive.) The CD-ROM drive, fast enough to play full-motion video,
was a bit clunky when it came to closing the drive, but otherwise
gave excellent performance. One power-saving tip: since the
PowerBook 1400 periodically activates the CD-ROM drive to check
for a disk when empty, you can save power by keeping a CD in the
drive. Components are easy to swap: just put the ’Book to sleep, swap
the component, and wake your Mac up. It’s that simple. Third-party
vendors have promised modules (such as a second hard drive, an
Iomega Zip drive, or a magneto-optical drive) to fill the l400’s bay
with other storage treasures.

Other nifty 1400 features include a fold-out keyboard for easy
upgrading, piggyback-style memory to allow for two memory cards
when expanding RAM, two Type II or one Type III PC Card slot (the
TDK data/fax modem card we tried worked beautifully) , and a sharp,

1 GO TO PIECES: Though the 1400 has two docking bays, the battery (left)
fills one, so it’s either the CD-ROM (right) or the floppy drive— not both.

LIKE A DRIVE-IN: The active-matrix screen boosts the price on the “c”
model (the “cs” has a dual-scan display), but it is lovely.

active-matrix color display capable of thousands of colors, which is
decidedly worth the extra money. The l400’s Trackpad is an improved
model that offers more reliability and tap, double tap, and drag lock.
These features allow you — once you get your rhythm down — to use
the Trackpad as a mouse without touching the Trackpad button, and
that’s made a Trackpad believer out of me.

Also worth mentioning (and heaping praise on Apple for includ-
ing them on the 1400) are the power supply and the fold-in door.
The power supply, based on the Duo-style supply, uses an in-line
transformer which only occupies one outlet on your power strip.
The fold-in door, which covers the SCSI port, the ADB port, the
single modem/printer serial port and the reset switch, slides under
and mostly into the l400’s case, reducing the chance that a careless
gesture with your multi-thousand-dollar Mac will result in that door
snapping off like a rotten twig. Nifty.

l^e Bad

All 7MHz 603e, while not the fastest processor on God’s green
Earth, is still pretty snappy. That is, until it’s put in the case of a 1400.
Then it acts as though it’s lying on a couch after it had a big lunch
on a sunny, warm Friday. Theoretically, the 603e should be slightly
faster than a lOOMHz 601, so we pitted the 1400 against a Power
Macintosh 7500/100 to see what was what. The 1400 could only
muster one-quarter the speed of the 7500 on a series of 10,000
GetNextEvent calls (courtesy of Speed Tester); on the other hand, it
beat the 7500 quite nicely when it came to 10,000 floating point
calculations. The 1400 ran at 72 percent of the 7500’s speed while
doing a QuickDraw graphics test. In some more practical Photoshop
tests, the PowerBook’s performance was lackluster as well: it came
in nearly half as fast as the 7500 when comparing an Unsharp Mask
filter and a Color Halftone filter. Apple says Aat this speed difference

72 MacADDICT

DOWN, DOWN, AND AWAY: The 1400’s rear door retracts inside the
case to reveai the SCSI, ADB, and serial ports.

is due, in part, to the l400’s processor not being optimized to work
with the l400’s architecture. Slow bus speed and the lack of any L2
cache may also account for slow test results. At presstime, Apple was
set to release a 1400 running a 133MHz 603e with 128K of L2 cache
in January, so performance improvements should be in motion.

Benchmarks aside, the 1400 doesn’t feel pokey. It feels plenty
zippy when tooling around in the Finder. It handles speed-
dependent applications like full-motion video with only a few dropped
frames, and graphics-intensive games like MacSoft’s Prime Target
and Interactive Magic’s Apache run nicely on this system. In short,
although the 1400 doesn’t run as fast as one might expect, it’s still
plenty speedy for most uses.

Tlie Irritating

The PowerBook 1400 comes with an infra-red communications
port on the left back panel, which, in an ideal world, allows your
PowerBook to send data via AppleTalk IR to other IR devices, such
as printers and other PowerBooks, without wires. It’s a nice idea,
but we couldn’t get it to work with any other IR devices in our offices
(such as an eMate or a PowerBook 190). After conducting an infor-
mal office survey, we determined that no one in human history has
ever used an IR port successfully. The PowerBook would probably
be better off without it.

The 1400 ships with System 7.5.3, an unavoidable situation
because of the speed with which both the PowerBook and System
7.5.5 were developed. Adventurous spirits that we are, we tried to
install System 7.5.5 on the PowerBook 1400, even though that
system hasn’t been tested on the new ’Book. The result? We couldn’t
install 7.5.5. Period.

Other niggling 1400 irritations include a BookCover latch that
sometimes comes undone when opening the 1400, one serial port
(instead of two), and backlighting ffiat isn’t directly controllable a la
the PowerBook 170. Really, though, these bits are not deal killers
when it comes to purchasing Apple’s latest and greatest.

The PowerBook 1400 is a fine Macintosh. It’s expandable, it has
a CD-ROM drive, the nickel-metal-hydride battery still lasts two to
four hours (not great, but not terrible) and that large screen is down-
right beautiful. While the 1400 won’t set any speed records, it will
do everything you need it to do, provided you aren’t a graphics design
professional looking to use a PowerBook as your primary Mac. For
those who have been waiting for the Volvo of mobile computing, wait
no more. The PowerBook 1400 has David Reynolds

GOOD NEWS: CD-ROM drive option. Large 11.3” display.
i BookCovers. Easy upgrading.

' BAD NEWS; Slower-than-expected response. Lackluster processor
speed. Funky BookCover latch.

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Avid Cinema 1.0

DEVELOPER: Apple Computer

CONTACT: 408-996-1010; http://www.apple.com

PRICE: $459 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: Any PCI PowerPC Performa equipped with Apple Video
System or any PCI AV Power Mac, 16MB of RAM, 1GB hard disk, System 7.5.3
or later, QuickTime 2.5, camcorder or VCR (recommended: 24MB of RAM, 2GB
hard drive; S-Video, digital camcorder, or VCR)

mericans shoot billions of feet of home video each year, and
i hardly any of it is edited. Calculate the number of valuable
Ihours wasted fast-forwarding through endless footage of
babies drooling, kids mugging, Gen-Xers slacking, and wedding
guests staggering and you’ll see why Apple and Avid have a winner
in Avid Cinema, the first truly easy-to-use digital video-editing
solution for ordinary, home moviemakers.

Avid Cinema (developed by Avid, but offered exclusively
through Apple) is a combination hardware/software product. The
software helps you capture and export the video, and offers an

editing interface; the hard-

Tricks Tips. ware is a 7-inch PCI video

digitizer card that fits in all
PCI Macs and supplies RCA
composite (standard video)
and S-Video out jacks. To
use Avid Cinema with a Per-
forma, you’ll also need the
Apple Video System ($109),
a separate board with
video-in and audio-in jacks
that plugs into the Perfor-
ma’s video slot. Some
newer Performas, such as
the 6400, include both Avid
Cinema and the AVS. AV
Power Macs with integrated
video in — including the
7500, 7600, and 8500—
don’t need the AVS.

In all, the hardware
does an impressive job of
simplifying video hookup.
Your Mac becomes just
another video peripheral:
simply connect a cam-
corder to the input jacks, a
VCR into the output jacks,
and run video right through
the system.

The Avid Cinema board
offers hardware compres-
sion/decompression for
Motion-JPEG. Ideally, you
can grab and play back 30
frames-per-second, 320 x

Q. Planning to use one of the canned storyboards?
A. Print it out beforehand and take it with you to
the event. It’ll help you organize your shots and
make sure you don’t miss anything.

Q. Do your Avid Cinema movies play in stutter-rama?
A. One way to dodge the dropped-frame problem is
by lowering your disk cache. Here’s how:

1. Choose the Memory control panel from Control
Panels In the Apple menu.

2. Change the Disk Cache size to 96K. Close the
window to save the change.

3. Restart.

Q. How do I play movies?

A. Avid Cinema movies are not self-contained
movies, like most other QuickTime movies. The
saved movie contains references to the original
clips stored in the Media folder, so don’t throw that
out until you know you’re done with the project. To
make a self-contained Avid Cinema movie:

1 . Choose the Send Movie Out tab.

2. Select Internet, CD-ROM, or Presentation movie,
depending on your needs.

3. Save the movie under a different name.

Q. Want movies on your home page to download
automatically for users of Netscape 3.0 and
compatibles?

A. Add the suffix “.mov” to the name of your movie
BEFORE uploading it to the network. This works with
any QuickTime movie.

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240-pixel video, which
can be bumped up via an
interpolation scheme to
a full-screen 640 x 480
pixels. You probably
won’t get all 30 frames
per second in or out
unless your Mac runs at
180MHz or better, and
you’ve tuned your system
to maximize video
throughput by quitting
all other open programs,
turning off file sharing,
disabling extensions
that do things in the
background (such as
RAMDoubler or Virtual
Memory, for example),
and making sure there’s
plenty of fi-ee RAM avail-
able. The interpolated
full-screen output looks
surprisingly good — Uke
a second-generation VHS
recording.

It’s the editing soft-
ware that provides the real ease-of-use kick. Avid Cinema boils
down the moviemaking process to just four steps: working with
a storyboard, bringing video in, editing the movie, and sending
the movie out.

To begin, you pick a storyboard template. Templates for com-
mon life-cycle experiences — fi*om birthday to vacation to wedding,
as well as school and office events — ^make it relatively simple to
organize your raw material. The templates are relentlessly conven-
tional and narrow-minded, as are the event choices — ^how come
there’s a “Christmas Holiday” storyboard, but no Kwanzaa or
Hanukkah? — but this is the feature that may well be the most

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popular with folks who
just want to get their
videos made without
reinventing the cinematic
narrative basics.

The next step is to
grab the video footage,
which is straightforward
enough, as long as you
have enough hard disk
space to store it all; a fin-
ished 10-minute video
occupies about 500MB.
The third step, editing the
movie, takes place in
a stripped-down, four-
track, editing timeline
that is reminiscent of
an ancestral version of
Adobe Premiere. This is
where you piece together
the clips according to the
storyboard, adding music,
narration, titles, and
some basic transitional
effects such as wipes
and dissolves. Finally, you dump the finished product to
tape, CD-ROM, or a standalone QuickTime movie.

Avid Cinema’s tabbed interface, simplified feature set, extensive
support for drag-and-drop, and quick response makes movie

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where you piece together the movie. A limited
number of tracks keeps things simple.

TYPICAL DIRECTOR: Two dozen storyboards
step you through typical productions, but
flexibility is limited.

production about as easy as it can be. Even newbies will be able to
rough out most productions in less than an hour. The product is
pitched particularly well to kids who want to hone their Spielberg
talents — in fact, Apple’s first public demo of Avid Cinema was
conducted by a 9-year-old.

The flip side of this extreme ease-of-use is that Avid Cinema is a
poor choice for serious moviemaking and learning about
moviemaking. Among its many, many shortcomings as a profes-
sional tool: you can’t add additional video, audio, or effects tracks
for multilayered movies; it’s not compatible with Adobe Premiere
plug-ins or Adobe Photoshop filters, so wild special effects aren’t
possible; you can’t apply custom compression settings to your
movies; there’s no external device control for automatically starting
and stopping a camcorder; SMPTE time code, the industry-
standard method of numbering and tracking video frames, isn’t
supported; the storyboard templates aren’t really suitable for
business or creative needs; and the video quality, while excellent
for a less than-$500 product, doesn’t meet industrial, much less
pro, standards. Anyone with artistic or professional ambitions
should look at packages firom miro, Radius, or Truevision instead.

Does that mean Avid Cinema is the training wheels without the
bike? Only if you’re a video snob who can’t stand the idea that
people might want a simple, foolproof, and unpretentious way to
edit their movies. Videoheads beware — ^Awd Cinema is digital
video for the rest of us. — Steven Anzovin

GOOD NEWS: Easy-as-pie video capture, editing, and output.
BAD NEWS: Ambitious moviemakers wiii chafe at severeiy
iimited options. Not currently expandabte.

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less) server. Functionality is limited, of course, but nothing
catastrophic results (no broken links, for example).

Of course there are limitations. You can bask in CometPage drag
and drop glory ’til the cows come home, but without CometSite it’s
all for naught — unless you’re content with CometPage’s 50 concur-
rent connection ceiling. Real CGI programmers will always have
more versatility and flexibility. But what these programs offer in
exchange for their limitations is a ridiculously easy, almost instant
CGI gratification. — Gar)f Barker

GOOD NEWS: Drag and Drop CGI. Powerful and easy to use.
Includes server software.

BAD NEWS: Few ISPs run CometSite.

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Danrer 1.0

DEVELOPER: Paceworks

CONTACT: 415-855-0900; http://www.paceworks.Gom
PRICE: $445 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC, 5MB of application RAM, System 7.5 or
later, QuickTime 2.0 or later, Colorsync 2.0, QuickDraw GX 1.0 or later or the
GXGraphIcs INIT QuickDraw GX Library (recommended: PowerPC, 16MB of
RAM, CD-ROM drive, cllp-art collection, Java-compatible Web software)

VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE:
Dancer is a
V/eb-oriented
animation tool
with powerful
timing features
and a lot of
smaii controls.

The frantic race to deliver a killer 2D animation application that will
do for the Web what Macromedia Director did for CD-ROM makes
it an interesting time for animators. Latest in the increasingly
crowded field of Web-minded animation tools is Paceworks’s Dancer.

At first glance, Dancer looks like other 2D animation programs.
There’s a composition window for (go on, guess) composing visual
elements and editing motion paths; a multitrack timeline (the Synchro
window) for adjusting the timing of objects, sounds, and motions; and
a media window (the Hub), which shows all the animation’s elements
and their attributes, plus available libraries. Dancer is a key fmne ani-
mator: to make an animation, import an object (a PICT file, GX text or
graphics, QuickTime movie, etc.) into the Compo window, move the
time in the Synchro window to set a new key frame, move the object in
the Compo window, move the current time to set the next key frame.

Hn Tlpiiy TIbes

Mastering all of Dancer’s elements is no easy task. Here’s a quick guide
to the basics:

1 . Visuals are arranged in the Compo
window. Import elements, or drag and drop
them from libraries or the desktop. Motion
paths, such as that of the moon object, are
editable Bezier curves. Hold down the
Option key and citck on that path to add a
control point for editing.

2. The Synchro window is Dancer’s ani-
mation spreadsheet Objects and sounds
are listed at left. Timing bars at right can
be dragged, stretched, and squashed to
set start and end points. Icons along the
top jump to the Time Alignment box.

3. The Hub provides access to libraries of
objects and dances. It also shows detailed
attribute information about any object
selected in the Compo or Synchro windows.

4. Use the Time Alignment box to align
object motions and other time-variable
parameters— it’s like setting margins,
tabs, and justification in a page-layout
program.

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move or change the object, and so on.

Dancer has some unique twists that make animation easier. You
can save an object and its “dance” — the time-based parameters
attached to an object — in libraries for reuse. This is a real timesaver.
Dances created for one object can be drag and dropped onto many
other objects, allowing you to craift complex animations (birds in
flight, fish swimming) with minimal effort.

Dancer also knows that animators spend a lot of time making a
series of movements start and end at the same time. The Time
Alignment box provides tools for aligning key frames and locking the
timing of one object to all objects. There’s nothing like this in any
other animation program.

In fact, there are so many powerful features in Dancer that the
designers have had trouble fitting them all on the screen. The density
of controls and indicators, some of which are hidden until you cUck
on the right spot, makes Dancer’s interface not only hard on the eyes
but harder to use than it needs to be.

Another problematic aspect of Dancer is that it requires either a
full install of QuickDraw GX — ^not an option for people with limited
RAM and hard disk space — or the GXGraphics INIT, a library of GX
graphics routines. Extension problems become apparent before you
start working with Dancer. Ready to convert all your Type 1 fonts to
TrueType? You’ll have to, because the GXGraphics INIT recognizes
only TrueType. It is fanatically picky about corrupted fonts, and it dis-
ables deslrtop printing, too. (Apple may have fixed some of these
problems by the time you read te.)

As an animation tool, Dancer positions itself against Director, a
matchup between apples and oranges. Director began life as an
animation program, but it’s now a tool for creating interactivity.
Dancer has no interactive component. A better comparison is
between Dancer and After Effects ($995). Dancer’s time-sync tools
are more streamlined, plus it directly generates GIF89 and Java ani-
mations. However, for twice the price. After Effects has more than
twice the ftmctionality: It does almost everything that Dancer can do,
plus layers, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere plug-in support, and
special effects, such as motion blur.

If cash counts and your primary task is Web animation — ^specif-
ically, animated Web ads — ^Dancer will do the job, and then some.
Just make those widgets bigger, please. — Steven Anzovin

GOOD NEWS: Good news: Powerful 2D-key frame animation.
Unique time-alignment tools. Makes Java animations. Needs no
special playback plug-in for Web publishing.

BAD NEWS: Complexity means long learning curve. Requires
troublesome QuickDraw GX extension. Tiny screen elements
cause eyestrain.

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Interactive Physics 3.0

DEVELOPER: Knowledge Revolution

CONTACT: 800-766-6615; http://www.krev.com

PRICE: $249 for single user; $995 for Lab Pack of 10; site license available

REQUIREMENTS: 68K or Power Mac, System 7.1 or later, SMB of RAM, SMB of

hard disk space

FIND A
DEMO of
Interactive

Physics on
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Physics is fun. Okay, for those of you still reading, let’s look at
Interactive Physics 3-0, the latest upgrade of this classroom
physics simulator. Ever wondered what it would look like if
those intricate spring/lever/pulley/cannon diagrams your high school
teacher drew on the chalkboard came to life? Or what if you moved
that there, or connected these here? Or if it all happened on the
Moon? Here’s your chance to find out.

Knowledge Revolution has been making motion simulation soft-
ware since 1988, for both educators and engineers. And with
Interactive Physics 3.0, a lot’s been done to bridge the gap between
their lab- and school-based applications: the real-time, editable phys-
ical models in this educational product would have been available
only on workstations just a few years ^o. The interface is admirably
Mac-like, with a tools palette immediately comprehensible to any-
one who’s worked with any Mac graphics program from Apple’s
MacPaint to Adobe Illustrator. We were making worlds of bouncing
balls and cannon shots within minutes. Despite the simplicity of the
interface, though, Interactive Physics can be used to create terribly
sophisticated sims with powerfiil data input and export.

Opening the application gives you an untitled window that con-
tains the stage or “world” you’ll be creating and, oddly, the tools
palette (that is, each new world carries its own identical palette,
rather than letting one float separately). You can begin building ele-
ments right away, though it’s probably a good idea to begin with a
“Table” (i.e., a rectangular shape) and anchor it in place with the
Anchor tool: Interactive Physics’s worlds are infinite, with no default
“bottom.” From the table you can create any manner of machine
with rectangular or circular elements, polygonal or curved bodies,
pin joints, rigid joints, slots and slot joints, rods, pulleys, gears, ropes,
motors, actuators, dampers, and three kinds of springs. It’s a do-it-
yourselfer’s heaven.

With Version 3, Interactive Physics adds a bunch of features that
make life easier than it was in Version 2.5. “Object Snap,” for exam-
ple, makes it, well, a snap to attach joints at precise points of two
rods, or a rope to the center of mass of a ball to make a pendulum.
Previously, these were iffy propositions, and finstrating. Another rec-
tification of old annoyances is that now you can resize and reshape
an object while it is joined to another; in Version 2.5, if you were
assembling a machine, and found that the last side didn’t quite reach
the first, you had to disconnect all the sides, resize, and reconnect.
Now, it’s just a matter of dragging the shape of the object, much as
one would resize a window.

Initial conditions and properties of bodies are also easily set. To
give a ball an initial velocity, for example, just drag the cursor from
the center of the ball, and a vector, which is resizable and redirectable,
will appear. Properties of an object, such as elasticity, can be accessed
by double-clicking that object, and then set (materials range from

TAKING AND MAKING
CONTROL

STEP 1: The point of this sim/game is to land the lander on the
Pad. Previous controls for sideways thrust are already there, but
we need another control for the landing engines.

STEP 2: To make a new control for the Lander, select it with the
mouse, and under the Define menu, choose your New Control,
and select the parameter.

STEP 3: In the Properties window you can choose type of Control,
go to the Windows menu and call up the Appearance window
which allows you to change the name and color of your control.

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them, go to the Edit menu and select Player Mode. Now you can
distribute your game without fear of student... urn... embellishment.

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irS “TO GO BOLDLY, DAMMIT!” The sims can get sophisticated quickiy.
Good thing data can be displayed and collected into exportable charts
and graphs.

stone to ice to rubber, and the mass, static and kinetic firictions, elas-
ticity, and charge can be typed in) . One feature we’d like to see is a
global replacement function for conditions and properties; as it
stands, to scale all the velocities in a world or to change everything
to stone, you have to select each individually and replace. Once the
Sim is built, you can type titles or crude call-outs into the world; how-
ever, there’s not a lot of space for your words, and your layout options
are severely limited. If you’re tired of looking at the default grey
graphics, Interactive Physics allows you to color bodies and paste
onto them, though no amount of tweaking gave us a look that was
anything but flat.

Interactive Physics’s new Player Mode allows you to create a
sim and distribute it without the ability to edit it. This will probably
be a big attraction to teachers: a student can interact with a sim via
controls the teacher creates and defines, but can’t mess it up.
Teachers can create the conditions of a specific experiment and
let students explore certain aspects — ^for example, setting up a
spring with two blocks attached, giving the students control over
spring rates and masses but not gravity or number of springs. In
fact, Interactive Physics comes with a set of pre-made sims, and
Knowledge Revolution has created sim sets for many of the major
physics textbooks.

Perhaps the most powerful feature of Interactive Physics is that
models can be linked to data from a Microsoft Excel or Claris
Filemaker data file, so that the sim, while running, will use data from
those files to alter input parameters. Imagine having 20 students run
their own experiments (in the real world) , collect the data into a
spreadsheet, and then have the whole class see how each experiment
differed. On the other end. Interactive Physics can save data from a
sim as a tab-delimited file, so that students could run their own
virtual experiments and then incorporate their findings into a report.
Also (and this is neat), you can save your sim as a QuickTime movie
to show off, even cross-platform. Be careful, though: these movies
can run into the dozens of megabytes very quickly.

Overall, this is an outstanding package. The price is high for a
single user, though with an excellent Apple Guide help system and
tutorial, Interactive Physics plus a textbook could be a viable educa-
tion in itself. The learning curve for some of the more advanced
features is steep, but anybody can get going easily. Wish I’d had this
in high school. — D,D. Turner

GOOD NEWS: Very powerful physics simulator. Fairly simple to
use. Flexible. Good Mac-like toolbars and palettes. Can import and
export data several ways.

BAD NEWS: Flat, unexciting graphics.

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WiMRiver SSK 1.0

DEVELOPER: DataStream Imaging Systems
CONTACT: 606-255-6686; http‘.//www.datastrem.com
PRICE: $99.95 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: Adobe Photoshop 3.0 or 4.0 or an application that supports Photoshop 3-compatibie fiiters
(Fractai Design Painter, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Adobe Illustrator, etc.), 68040 or better. System 7.1 or later

Few Photoshop plug-in sets are
actually M of great plug-ins.
Most collections contain several
mediocre filters and one or two
FIND A standouts. True to form, Data-Stream’s

DEMO of WildRiver SSK 1.0 has MagicMask,
WildRIver which by itself is worth the price of the

SSK on package.

The Disc. WildRiver SSK contains seven fil-
ters, each using a wild and colorfiil
interface. MagicMask, the star of the pack-
^e, creates bevels, embosses, highlights,
and shadows in tons of combinations. Magic-
Mask bases the effect on the current selec-
tion’s edges. The effects range jffom Satin to
Metallic to Plasma, and there are plenty of
ways to customize the effects. In addition to
creating some really stellar effects, Magic-
Mask contains a preview window (indispens-
able for complex effects) and handy visual
fixed presets.

The only other filter in the set that offers
previews is Chameleon, which replaces a
range of color in an image with another,
newly defined range of color. Chameleon
isn’t totally useful, however, for slight reton-
ing and color correction (which is what
most people would want to use this filter
for), because the preview window isn’t
sensitive enough to display such slight,
incremental changes.

The unique TileMaker filter, which
divides the selected area into small tiles, is
intriguing and fun. The TVSnow filter gives
images the look that makes television view-
ers with a rural antenna cringe. MagicFrame
creates gradient-based frames, and Magic-
Curtain creates gradients; but both filters
suffer firom a lack of direct control, and their
results look all too similar. Finally,
DekoBoko is an embossing tool for rectan-
gular selections that provides a few effects
beyond the norm.

All the filters save presets, a godsend
considering the con-
fusing plethora of
pop-up menus, slid-
ers, and buttons and

THAT’S NOT A BLOB, THAT’S A BUHON: The
interface is alien, but MagicMask Is far easier
fo use than multiple channel operations.

Ihe lack of their consistent placement. (To
help you, WildRiver SSK includes a Hints box
at the bottom of the MagicMask filter’s
box that offers hints about how to achieve
different effects. Also, each filter has an on-
line Helper, accessible by clicking on a
stjiized question mark).

Control over effects is limited in several
ways, from the eight preset lighting effects
angles to the inabihty to compress or stretch
color bands within the Frame and Curtain
dialog boxes. Some keyboard commands
follow Photoshop standards, such as com-
mand-] for switching the float of a selection,
but others, such as command-F, which in
WildRiver SSK applies a filter again, do not.

MagicMask is definitely worth using on a
regular basis, as it creates effects previously
obtained only by complex channel opera-
tions (be sure to try using the filter on only
one color channel of an im^e) . Most of the
other filters duplicate similar or better-
implemented effects in other pack^es, so if
you’ve already made a hefty investment in
PhotoTools or Kai’s collections, the Wild-
River SSK set may be redundant. However, if
you’re starting out in the stuff-the-filters-
folder game, you won’t be unhappy with any
of this group’s parts, and definitely happy
with a few. — TedAIspach

GOOD NEWS: MagicMask provides fantastic, easy-to-use effects.
BAD NEWS: Most of the remaining fiiters are just so-so.

Interface can be a bit disorienting.

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FIND THE
DEMO of
Abuse on
The Disc.

Abuse/Blackthorne

Abuse

DEVELOPER; Bungle

CONTACT: 800-295-0060; http://www.bungie.com
PRICE: $37.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or PowerPC, 6MB of free RAM, 17MB of hard disk
space, System 7.1 or later

Blackthorne

DEVELOPER: MacPIay

CONTACT: 800-4MACPLAY; http://www.macplay.com
PRICE: $27.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or faster, SMB of free RAM (6MB recommended),

4MB of hard disk space, System 7.0 or later

It’s rare for Mac gamers to get a chance to play side-scrollers and
even rarer for two such games to be released in the same month.
But it happened late last year with Bungle’s Abuse and MacPlay’s
Blackthorne. The two the games have little else in common.

Abuse is pure action. You’re dropped into mutant hell. Your job is
to shoot all Ae mutants blah blah blah before they ysata yada yada so
you can blah blah blah. Once you’re playing the game, the plot really
doesn’t matter, except to prepare you for bizarre-looking bad guys.

ABUSE THOSE MUTANTS BELOW. If they hurt you, just grab the hearts
(health points) after you kill them.

The real object is to collect bi^er and badder weapons so you can
off bi^er and badder enemies. You start with a puny laser gun and
work your way up to a Death Saber, with a few projectile weapons
thrown in for laughs. You need those weapons to face weirder and
tougher mutants as you progress. You encounter a few puzzle ele-
ments, such as switches, along the way, and you must watch your
health points, but overall Abuse encourages you to kill, kill, kill.

Abuse’s interface harks back to the good old days of Delta Tao’s

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that’s familiar to
Mac users). Games
aren’t saved in the
standard Mac way,
however. You save
your game at a control panel in one of five slots. Abuse saves a snap-
shot of where you were, along with the level number. When you die, the
game returns you to your last saved game. Of course, once you’re back
in, you can’t stop. One final tip: Don’t choose the darkest gray (as -it
asks you to) on startup — you’U want the game brighter so you can see
more of it. We had a blast playing this game (though setting up a net-
work game on our local network was problematic) and found it diffi-
cult to stop playing once we got going.

Developed by Blizzard before it started publishing it own titles,
Blackthome was released by Interplay (MacPlay’s parent company)
almost two years ago on the PC You are Kyle Blackthome, a
mercenary soldier in Africa; no, wait, you’re Kyle, son of King Vlaros
of Thul, hidden away among the Earthlings until old enough to fight
the evil Sarlac. Whatever.

As Blackthome, you must shoot your way through many levels to
defeat the evil wizard and free the enslaved Androthi. Unlike when
playing Abuse, your finger is not on the trigger at aU times. You must
also jump, climb, and use objects such as healing potions, bombs,

KILL THAT WHAR’ORK: in Blackthome, leap onto
the ledge, lob a hover bomb, and avoid his whip.

and bridge keys while avoiding traps. This makes for a less immersive
experience than Abuse, because you must pause to figure out how to
get around obstacles — ^in Abuse you just keep going and going.

Blackthome makes up for low-level immersion with hi^-level
character development. You interact with the imprisoned Androthi,
who provides clues about what to do on the level. Your inventory is
more extensive than just a variety of guns. You learn more about the
world as you progress. You must wield the power of the Lightstone
against the Darkstone. But...

The game feels much more like a console game than a Mac
game — and not a 32-bit console game at that. The graphics are
chunky, and the font looks as if it came from your cable TV preview
channel. Instead of saving your game, you get a password after com-
pleting a level. And processor counts. We do not recommend playing
this game on an Mac. Kyle seems to move in slow motion when
he should be mnning.

Nonetheless, we had fun playing the game. If you have a PowerPC
and don’t mind a game engine that feels old, Blackthome is a fun, if
frustrating, game. — Kathy Tafel

Abuse

GOOD NEWS; Better graphics than Blackthome. Highly addictive.
Responsive gameplay on ’040 Macs. Networkable.

BAD NEWS: Saved games blend together, installs on only your
System Folder drive.

Blackthome

GOOD NEWS: Good deal for the money. Better plot than Abuse.
BAD NEWS: State of the art— two years ago. Slower than
molasses on '040 machines.

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Titanic: Adventure Out of
Time is one of the the
best Myst-like mystery/
suspense games released in
the past year. You are a
British secret agent on a mis-
sion as you move through a
stunning (and historically
accurate) 30-recreation of
the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

Your top secret mission is to
recover a priceless book,
trade it for secret documents,
then get into a lifeboat and
escape before the ship sinks
from its iceberg encounter.

You’ll also become
entangled in one or more
subplots involving a Russian
double agent, a diamond
necklace and its fake
replacement, and an
unscrupulous steel baron.

The storyline and subplots are in the best
secret zgent tradition. And Titanic includes
several interesting puzzles based on the tech-
nology of the day, such as the steam engine
and wireless telegraph.

The game interfece is simple and famil-
iar. The arrow keys are your feet and,the cur-
sor changes into a hand whenever it’s over
an object that you can pick up or manipu-
late, or when it’s over a character you can
interact with. A helpfiil direction indicator
glows green when you can move forward and
red when you can’t. A detailed map of the
ship’s eight decks provides guidance and a
helpful “jump-to” feature lets you move
around the ship quickly.

The first half of the game is event
based — ^you e}q)lore the ship, figuring out
who knows what and what to do next.
In this phase, you interact with more than 25

crew members and

passengers at your
own pace. Each
character has a dis-
tinct personality

SO SENSITIVE: what you say to her
could make or break your case.

A REALLY BIG SHIP: The Trtanic as it appears in the cinematic opening.

and responds different-
ly, depending on what
statement you select
from the pre-scripted
menus.

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iceberg: Now, the game
turns into an action
thriUer in real time. The
clock is ticking and you
must resolve your
dilemmas before the ship sinks in just two
and a half hours (the real Titanic’s sii^ time) .

The ship’s recreation is stunning, the
characters are diverse and interesting, and
the plots, subplots, and puzzles mesh well
with the setting and characters. So \^hat’s
missing? A better help system. You could
wander the ship for hours without any
action. Although Smethells, your steward,
occasionally provides hints and tips, he
rarely offers specific advice. And the puzzles
are too easy; the solutions are almost always
close at hand.

Nits aside, Titanic is a spectacular, cre-
ative adventure. Repeat play is also enjoy-
able; characters may respond differently,
affecting how you reach the end, if not the
end itself. Even you’re not a mystery/adven-
ture game-frn, Titanic may well be worth
buying for the guided tours. — Bob leVitus

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BAD NEWS: No hints or help to speak of. Puzzles too easy for
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ORIGAMI ■ WILLIAMS-SONOMA GUIDE TO GOOD COOKING ■ HERBIE HANCOCK LIVING JAZZ ■ SOLAR SYSTEM ■ HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS

If the winter blues have got you down and you’re looking a guide to origami (paper included), a way-happening
for some indoor distractions to pass the time, this welcome to the world of jazz, and a less-than-stellar space
month’s CD-ROM selections will soon have you cooking, title will take you into Spring — for better or worse. Read on
folding, and grooving the days away. Two digital cookbooks, to find out which one is which. — Joe Mahr

diagrams, this title provides QuickTime movies
to show you simple projects in easy-to-Mow,
step-by-step tutorials. But then the bug strikes.
You can’t stop pinching up paper. Soon you’re
folding your mother’s will into a bird.

Once you’re committed to the asylum,
you’ll have plenty of time to check out the

Think origami and you may recall
the Little Caesar’s commercial in
which the nerdy pizza clerk folds a
box into a giant squawking crane. Although
the art of paper folding has been popular
in Japan for centuries, it has not become a
serious mainstream pastime in the West.
Until now. If you can make it past a slightly
confusing interface, Casady & Greene’s
new CD-ROM will have you turning your
Wrigley wrappers into art in no time.
Instead of using text and complicated

OBiGAfVH HOW-TO KIT folds up mini masterpieces.

FEAST YOUR EYES on a delicious digital cookbook.

Braderbund Software
415-382-4700;
http://www.broderbund.com
$39 (street)

2X CD-ROM,

System 7.1 or later. Power Macintosh, 12MB of RAM

A cookbook on CD-ROM? No doubt
some half-hearted collection of bad
recipes lost in a maze of “multime-
dia,” you think. Well, think again. This culinary
delight will leave you begging for seconds.

This disc finally satisfies our craving for
an easy-to-access CD-ROM. Tracking down a
particular recipe is as simple as looking up
an ingredient or settling on a cooking time.

Hungry for a pizza, but you don’t like
anchovies? Punch your demands into a simple
form and up pops a list of yummy recipes.
Stuck living the low-fat nightmare on a fast-
food schedule? In a few seconds you learn
there are two dishes with less than 1 gram of
saturated fat (the really, really evil stuff) that
you can make in a half-hour or less.

An illustrated, animated glossary tops off
the vast database of 1,000 tantalizing recipes.

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disc’s extensive history of the art, along with a
collection of biographies on select origami
artists. Don’t worry if you quickly use up of
the pretty paper that comes packaged with the
disc — simple recipes help mix up new sup-
plies out of junk mail and water.

The Last Words:

Mark: Finally, a disc that gets everything
right. Most of this month’s oAer CD-ROMs
are superficial snacks, but the Secret life of
Paper is a five-course feast.

Judy: Other than the QuickTime movies and
the room-to-room navigation, this CD-ROM
displays only basic scrolling text and very little
navigational assistance.

Joe: If you like folding paper, this is the
disc for you. Sixty bucks buys a lot of prac-
tice paper.

When directions call for sauteing, click on the
term and a QuickTime movie will show you
how it’s done. (“The vegetables should liter-
ally jump around the pan,” explains a pleas-
ant voice.) Once you Imow what you’re doing,
it’s a breeze to print out your shopping list
and get cooking.

The Last Words:

Mark: Gosh dam it, it’s cute. Nonetheless,
my girlfriend would never forgive me if I gave .
top marks to a recipe book that doesn’t tell
you anything about the historical and cultural
context of the food.

Judy: m admit it: I am a foodie. And this
CD does my passion justice.

Joe: Eurel^! I made a pizza, and it didn’t
taste too bad! Of course, I haven’t tried all the
recipes yet...

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Herbie NaiKOck Presents Living lazz

YOU can be hip to the beat, Daddy-o,
so long as your groove-thing doesn’t
mind lootog
for the funkin this disc’s
navigational jungle.

Living Jazz has it all.

Start off with a
panoramic tour of New
Orleans, the birthplace
of jazz. While you’re
there, saunter into a
bordello to hear how

jazz became house entertainment in the city’s
red-light district before it was closed down by
the government.

Or cruise to Chicago or New York and
learn why jazz became the cultural icon of
the World War years. When your toes get
tired of tapping, wrap up your tour in
Hermosa Beach, California, at just about the
time jazz enthusiasts
traded in their straight-
laced suits for turtle-
necks and sports coats
with elbow patches.

Living Jazz shows off
the people, places, and
music of the jazz com-
munity with enough
pictures and QuickTime

recordings to satisfy those urges, baby.
However, finding your way around the disc
may leave many a hep cat shaving their goa-
tee in frustration.

The Last Words:

Mark; This CD has its rough spots-balky
performance, a somewhat obtuse interface-
but these flaws are more than made up for
by its sheer exuberance.

Judy: Locations, sights, and hot spots
should be labeled as your cursor passes
over them. But once discoveries are made,
the information and sounds are fantastic.
Joe: Herbie Hancock gets a little annoying
with his' pronouncements on jazz. But, hey,
as the great ones say, you’ve just got to
shake them bad vibes, baby.

Solar System Explorer

Marls Multimedia
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$45.95 (street)

2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0 or later, 68040 or better, SMB of RAM

Where are
Scotty and
Spockwhen
you need them? This
clunker of a spacecraft
could use some enter-
prising minds to redis-
cover the unusable inter-
face and jumpstart its
sloooow performance.
Don’t get us wrong,

it’s a nice concept. You’re the captain of a ship
that cruises around space, exploring planets
and far-out attractions found only in the solar
system. While you’re flying, you can check out
the library for info on planets or visit the
museum for history on other voyages. And
(surprise) there’s a
Web site to visit for the
latest on space issues,
such as life on Mars.

It all sounds so
fascinating. Too bad
that getting any kind
of response from the
disc takes longer than
it does for Captain
Kirk to spit out a

sentence. By the time you actually track down
any useful space facts from this disc, you’ll
probably be able to shuttle directly to the
planet and see it for yourself.

The Last Words:

Mark: My brain hurts. Although I had the
manual at hand every step of the way, I felt
like I was trying to fly to Mars with thick
mittens, rotten eyesight, chronic motion
sickness, and an IQ of 15.

Judy: I found, by accident, info on a
spacesuit, but darned if I could find it again,
even after repeatedly searching and search-
ing and searching...

Joe: Scientists had a nice idea, but disc
makers screwed it up. Better luck next time.

Better Homes and Gardens Holidav Celebrations

Multicom Publishing
800-850-7272;
http://www.multicom.com
$24.95 (street)

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System 7.1 or better, 68030 or better, 8MB of RAM

Catch up to the latest Christmas
cross-stitches while brushing up
on your favorite Yuletide truffle
recipe. (Insert fake smile.) And if you’re
lucl^, maybe, just maybe, you’ll find some
holiday inspiration somewhere in this disc.
We sure didn’t.

All Martha Stewart jokes aside, the disc,
which comes bundled with a 140-page book
(the most appealing ingredient in this foul
holiday concoction), reeked of quick and
dirty production. Although the book is nicely

split between Christmas and non-holiday
cookie recipes, the disc includes a paltry
half-dozen Christmas cookie how-to’s. And
not only do the featured entrees look waxy
and distasteful, but you’d find more holiday
meal variety in a high school cafeteria.

The title’s lone redeeming value is the unin-
tentionally humorous QuickTime movies that
show you how to
make a selection
of low-rent crafts.

The highlight has
to be the floating
walnut shell can-
dles, which you’re
supposed to liter-
ally light then toss
in a bucket. You

CHEESV CRAFTS are recipe Jur "isaster.

can just imagine a perky housewife sweetly
prodding firefighters to keep their hoses off
the carpet. Gag.

The Last Words

Mark: I’m no candidate for Martha
Stewart-hood, but the relentless perkiness
and white-bread aesthetics of this disc
absolutely gave me hives.
Judy: From the echoey wel-
come to the floating walnut
shells, there just isn’t a whole
lot here to make you cheer.
Joe: At least making the disc
kept some cutesy-fake kitchen
nuts busy for a while, so they
couldn’t mess with too many
other people’s lives.

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Brisbane Elementary School Mac Addicts sound off on the latest kids’ software.

FIND DEMOS
of Elroy’s
Costume
Closet, Just
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Mom, Mega
Math Blaster,
and Pajama
Sam on
The Disc.

Just He and My Horn

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PRICE: $37 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 68040 or faster,

SMB of RAM

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lercer Mayer’s hanging spiders, pet frogs, arid
I mysterious monsters c^rnp to life as Little Critter’s trip
to the city turns into an animated adventure. Kids can either
have the story read aloud or explore at their own pace. -1Tte .
charming cast of'clickables found on each page keeps kids
working the mouse to find the silly surprises, such as rapping
dinos and farting squids, that seem to lurk on every page.

Meet the players...

GOOD FOR GRADES: Pre-school to 3 .

LIKES: “It is very information filled. By information 0ed* f^^m in
the museum they tell you about all of the exhibits.” ■ Hilary . ■ ■

“I like this software because the things that you clipk on do
something that is usually interesting.” ■ Katie ^

DISLIKES: “When you clicked on Play, It would play the story non-
stop.” ■Holly

“It was slow when I
wanted tp go to the next
page^ and I did not like all .
the corny jokes.” ■ Paul
SOUND ADVICE: % would
make him go more places. Jj|
would be more fun.^’ ■ Rehocca
FINAL REPORT: Cute
critters play up their anlmai i
magnetism.

EMILY HANDA, Age 10, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Sports

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No
Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

HOLLY MILLER, AGE 10, Grades
EXPERTISE: Soccer
PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No Need to Hide When
It’s Dark Outside”

. , KATIE TWOMEY, Age 10, Grade 5

4^. 4^ 4 EXPERTISE: Art and science

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No
Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

DANIEL LAM, Age 10, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Spelling

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No Need to
Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

PAUL JIMENEZ, Age 10, Grades
EXPERTISE: Art

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No Need
/ to Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

HILARY WALDO, Age 9, Grade S
EXPERTISE: Soccer

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No Need to
Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

REBECCA WALDO, Age 9, Grade S
EXPERTISE: Theater

PICK OF THE MONTH: Pajama Sam in “No
Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside”

ERIC GRIFFIN, Age 10, Grade S
EXPERTISE: Sports

PICK OF THE MONTH: Mega Math Blaster

Elroy’s Costume Closet

■ PJJBUSHER: Headbone tnteractlv^

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Eiroy and his best friend, Syd, don
more than one hat (as well as a
slew of matching costumes) as they take
to the stage for their theatrical debuts. In
this digital version of dress-up, you get
to pick out the young stars’ clothes as
they powder up in their dressing rooms
backstage. Pick out the correct clothing
combinations and Blroy and Syd will put on a show. If you just can’t
find anything to wear, you can always download more costumes from
the Headbone Web site.

GOOD FOR GRADES: Preschool to 5

LIKES: “I like the part where you dress Elroy and Syd and then put
them on the stage.” ■ Daniel

“The end plays are funny, and I like the cos-
tumes.” ■ Rebecca

“The reason I like this software so much is
because I like picking out other people’s clothes.”

■ Katie

DISLIKES: “I didn’t like that Elroy and Syd looked
so much alike under the costumes.” ■ Eric
i ■ “They had only three characters, and there
. was not a lotto do. I liked everything else.” ■ Hilary
SOUND ADVICE: “I would change it so you can
mix up the costumes and they would still put on a
show.” ■ Paul

FINAL REPORT: Elroy and Syd are dressed
for success.

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The Louvre Museum

SLOW^PACED MULTIMEDIA MUSEUM tour
plays more like a still life. !

kUStJER^ogger

CQHTACT: a(UM46-2001; http://www.voyagerco.com
PRICE: $39.95 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7 or later, 33MHz 68040 or taster,
SMRofRAM

Voyager’s tired
tour of France's
most sacred museum
will have rhost kids
heading to the exit
before they even make
it to the Mona Lisa.
Lame games, dry-as-
dust narration, and
tons of text amount to
little more than a
sleepy art-history slide
AljhoughJB^itle treats kids to a sweeping collection of histor-
ical masterpieces from world-famous artists, most kids are still top
young to appreciate art for art’s sake. Now, if it came bundled with
chocolate mousse...

GOOD FOR GRADES! 3 and up
LIKES: Hke the pictures and the puzzles. 1 also like
how It shows you when the picture was drawn.” ■Emily
“1 liked that some of the puzzles you could do
were dot-to-dof ’ ■Eric

DISLIKES: “It’s kind of boring because you just
click on arrows and play little games.’' ■ Daniel
‘The tour was too long and the scrapbook was
too little.” ■ Paul

“It got sort of boring. There was not a lot to do.

The voices and music were dull.” ■ Hilary
SOUND ADVICE: “I would make more puzzles.*'

■ Rebecca

FINAL REPORT: KPds would rather not suffer for
their art.

Where in the U.S.A.
is Carmen Sandiego?

PUBLISHER: Braderbund Software

CONTACT: 800-521-6263; http://www.broderbund.com/carmen
PRICE: $39 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0.1 or later, 20MHz 68040 or faster,

SMB of RAM (12MB for Power Macintosh)

Get ready, gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her light-fingered
friends have gone on yet another stealing spree. Decipher
clues and interrogate suspects as you trail the villains across 50
states and stop them from stealing America’s treasures. Clueless
crime-stoppers can call up an ACME Good Guide to get a fact-filled
tour of an area, or they can click on the ACME database to view
each state’s permanent rap sheets, which Include information on
geography, history, economy, people, sites, and landmarks.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 4 and up

LIKES: “I like this software because there are mind-challenging
activities.” ■ Katie

“1 liked going to different states, collecting clues, and trying to
catch Carmen.” ■Holly

“It’s fun! It’s challenging! There are so many possible suspects!”

■ Rebecca

DISLIKES: “It was kind of confusing to understand what you had to do

in the first game. There
are only three people in
each state.” ■Hilary
“1 didn’t like how the
warrants looked so
unreal and lined.” ■Eric
SOUND ADVICE:
“It’s good already, but
maybe we could go to
any state when we
travel.” ■Daniel
FINAL REPORT:
Crime-solvers crack up
: over geography.

TRAINED SLEUTHS CLUE IN to the geography of the U.S.A. today,

GOOD FOR GRADES; 3 and up

LIKES: “I like the graphics in this because it’s almost like you’re right
thei^. 1 like Darkness's house.” ■ Emily ^ ^

game is challenging and not boring. A wide variety df ages
will love this game.^’ ■ Hilary

“1 like this software because all
of the characters have different
personalities, like Sam-he acts all
brave, and then he gets scared,*^

■ Katie

DISLIKES: "it’s hard to find aii the
stuff you need in his room, and thl$
game is pretty hard.” ■ Daniel
got confusing at timesl It
does not tell you where that much
stuff is!” ■ Rebecca
SOUND ADVICE: “i would make
an overhead view of the Land of
Darkness so kids could know
where to go.” ■ Eric
FINAL REPORT: A game most
kids yvoutd lose sleep over.

CONTACT: 800-499-8386; http://viww.humongous.com
PRICE: $39.95 (srp) - ; ^ ^ ^

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0 or later,
25MHz 68040 or faster, SMB of RAM

In an epic struggle to conquer his fears
and sleep with the lights off, Pajama Sam
embarks on a quest to track down Darkness
and restrict the evil-doer to the close con-
fines of a lunchbox. But soon after Sam
crosses into the LahdW Darkness (via his
closet), the Customs Trees snatch away his
Darkness-nabbing supplies. Using team-
work and problem-solving skills, the young
hero must search out his stuff (along with
several feet’s worth of missing socks) before
he can face Darkness. However, by the tinie
he’s finished tils quest, he already has.

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Nath Heads

PUBltSHER: Theaui*

CONTACT: 800-95S-TRIX; http-^/www.theatrix.cam
j"' PRICE: $29.95 (srpj
' REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 68030 or (aster, SMB of RAM

PBS meets MTV in this season’s premiere of Math Heads, a CD-
ROM game that disguises fractions and pre-algebra as a |^st-
paced lineup of infomercials, game shows, and music videos. Theatrix
tunes kids into Math Head TV through seven educational channels that
math addicts can flip through via a splashy remote control interface.
Start off by, literally, getting a head, then try to win enough caish to biiy"
the flashlight of your dreams from the Oo Shopping channel.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 5 and up

LIKES: “They have an information channel where you can learn rnath;^;
tricks. The math is chaltenglng.’’ N Hilary

“I liked making the people because you can make them silly;
gppfy, nice, or anything like thatl” ■ Katie

DISLIKES: "Lower the itfiOe of
the shopping channel stuff, like
the couch and the flashlight thei
flashlight is like $59.” ■ Daniel
SOUND ADVICE: 1 would
make more channels. There
could also be some easier
games." ■ Rebecca
FINAL REPORT: Growing
up; with cable makes seven
channels seem skimpy.

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Max, the arts and crafts hound, is back In business as the friendly
instructor of yet another how-to kit frofn Prrht Unlike most

build-a-book software programs, this kit actually comes with the paper,
cover stock, buttons, and binding material necessary to turn a selection
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Gelator, the brain-draining baddie, is up to no good. Now he has
kidnapped Blasternaut and Galactic Commander’s esteemed
colleague Spot, and you must solve several levels of arcade-style
math games to bail out their buddy. You’ll shoot down asteroids and
avoid electrifying bombs as you solve math problems ranging in diffi-
culty from adding up digits to figuring out fractions. A space saga that
spans two discs, Mega Math Blaster offers enough levels of math
mastery to keep kids of all ages engrossed in calculating gameplay.
GOOD FOR GRADES; 1 to 5

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old.” ■ Rebecca

“I liked that there was a hard, medium, and easy level.” "Eric

“It was cool when you got to fly the spaceship.” ■ Paul
DISLIKES; “I don’t like it when you are timed. I always lose
because of time, and it’s hard to pause the game.” ■ Daniel
SOUND ADVICE: “Yoi
should change the way the^
give you instructions. There
should be more characters
Everything else is cool!’

■ Hilary

FINAL REPORT: Arcade
style math equals hours o
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I ikki ^chler is on vacation this month, so this section
I was written by Katie Twomey, one of the Brisbane
Elementary School reviewers. Katie decided to dedicate her
column to the Comfy Activity Center ($129 srp, 800-99-
COMFY), which works strictly with its own software and was
designed for use fay toddlers, The activity center ships with

two software titles; most
additional titles sell for about
$29 (srp). Upon finishing
her review, Katie donated
the keyboard to her
school’s special-education
class for use by children
with Down’s syndrome.

software,” ■Eric

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4) The makers did a really good job on graphics.

5| The characters are nicely animated.

6) It is also interesting for ages over 4.

7) I like the way you are able to call some characters.

8) It has different languages.

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Moire patterns, interpolation, optical resolution? It's all easier than it sounds,

A flatbed scanner can serve so many purposes you’ll won-
der how you ever managed without one. Until, of
course, you run into one of those “problem” scans.
Then you’ll wonder why you ever bought the thing in the
first darn place. The best way to avoid problem scans is
to do a little planning before your scanning.

Problem scans often fall into some pretty distinct categories:
1. Huge File-itis
2. Itty-bitty Originals
3. Cruddy Color
4. That’s a Moire
5. Muddy Line Art

Most of these problems can be corrected in a variety of ways,
but without a doubt the single, most-effective tool to correct all of
them, as well as tackle a whole slew of more-esoteric problems
and objectives, is Adobe Photoshop. If you don’t already have
Photoshop and you’re contemplating buying a scanner, then go for
the scanner/software bundle that includes it. If you’ve already
bought a scanner and it didn’t come with Photoshop, then get it.
Using your scanner without this essential software is akin to
running your Ferrari on low-octane gasoline.

Huge File-itis

Scanned images can be huge. They can take
over a hard drive like Windows NT in an IS
department. Often, scanned images are far
larger than they need to be to get their job done, almost always
because the resolution at which they were scanned was too high.
Fortunately, armed with a few resolution rules of thumb, you can
keep files as small as possible. We’ll start with the idea that your
original is about the same size as the spot where you want to use the
scanned image; that is, you won’t be doing any enlarging or reducing.
We’ll cover that a little bit later.

First, decide where the final file (which includes the scanned
image) will end up. Will it be displayed on a monitor (such as on a
Web page) , or will it be printed on a laser printer? The resolution of
the output device makes a world of difference. Once you know that
number, you can figure out the resolution at which the original
should be scanned. Here are some common resolutions:

• Monitor: 72 dpi

• Inkjet printer: 360 dpi (some are 360 x 720 dpi, but for all
practical purposes, consider it a 360-x-360-dpi printer)

• Laser printer: 300 dpi or 600 dpi
If you don’t know your printer’s resolution offhand, find it in the
machine’s documentation.

If your im^e will be displayed on a monitor, things are pLxel-for-pixel
easy. Scan your image at 72 dpi, and you’ll end up with an image on-
screen that’s the same size as your original, and you won’t waste pixels.

n THE ROSE
IMAGE
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Deciphering a scanner’s resolution is confusing. Manufacturers
often rate products at both the actual (optical) and enhanced
^ (interpolated) resolutions. My Apple OneScanner’s opticaf resolu-
tion is 300 X 600 dpi; its interpolated resolution, 2,400 x 2,400 dpi.
In the optical rating, the 300 refers to the resolution of the charge-
coupled device, which is what “sees” the item being scanned.

The 600 refers to how small an increment the “step down” motor
; can move the scanning bar. Your scanner’s true resolution is the
smaller of the two numbers. If you’re using Photoshop for interpo-
lation, you can basically ignore the manufacturers’ Interpolation
claims. If you want a higher resolution, look at the optical rating.

The Crem (RGB, 1:4)

FROM THE
ORIGINAL GROUP

Shot we enlarged the section we wanted and sharpened it twice. You
should adjust hue, contrast, and luminance before you Interpolate, but
wait to sharpen until you’ve bumped the Image up to the intended size.
The more pixels Photoshop has to work with, the better the end result.

Printing, however, is a little different, because it involves
halftones and line screens. Luckily, you don’t need to know too
much about these two things to get a good scan. We’ll figure out your
ideal scan resolution by using the printer’s best line screen. Bear
with us; the calculation gets a little muddy, but it’s worth wading
through.

Scan resolution does not equal printer resolution. If you have a
600-dpi printer and you scan an 8V^-x-l 1-inch, grayscale image
at 600 dpi to print on that printer, you’ll have an image that exceeds
40MB and will take hours to print. And most of that information will
be wasted pixels because of the way printers work.

To print an image, your printer and computer convert images into
halftones by changing light and dark areas into patterns of dots.
Lighter areas use fewer dots, darker areas use more dots. (The small-
er the dots, the clearer and sharper the images, which is why print-
ers with higher resolutions produce better-looking images.) Printers
use line screens to measure the resolution of halftones. Here’s why
that’s important: A 300-dpi Apple LaserWriter prints good halftones
at up to 60 lines per inch (Ipi). At line screens higher than that, the
LaserWriter can’t make dots small enough to make good halftone
dots. A rule of thumb to determine what scan resolution to use is to
double the printer’s line screen. Therefore, an image destined for a
300-dpi LaserWriter — capable of a 60-lpi screen — should be
scanned at no more than 120 dpi.

Here are some common printer line screens and su^ested
resolutions to use with them:

Printer’s resolution

Printer’s line screen

Scan resolution

300-dpi laser printer

60 Ipi

120 dpi

360-dpi inkjet printer

60 Ipi

120 dpi

600-dpi laser printer

85 Ipi

170 dpi

Some people say that it’s necessary to scan at only one and a half
times a printer’s line screen. Experiment with that setting.
If your printed ims^es don’t show any
degradation, scan at the lower setting.

To enlarge images, you’ll need to scan
them at a higher resolution. If
you want to double the size of
your original, double the scan
resolution. (For example, to
double the size of an image
meant for a 600-dpi laser
printer, scan it at 340 dpi.)

WITHOUT INTERPOLATION, heavy pixelation occurs when blowing up
photos to many times their original size.

Enlarging your image by scanning at a higher resolution will enlarge
your file size and run you up gainst your scanner’s maximum reso-
lution quickly, so learn how to deal with “Itty-bitty Originals” in the
next step.

NEED TO KNOW: Halftones are images made up of a series of dots, as
seen in newspaper photos. This printing method allows printers to
create the illusion of lots of shades of gray using only black Ink on
white paper. A halftone’s line screen Is the number that indicates
how many lines of dots fit in an inch. (Newspapers are typically
printed at 85 Ipi; magazines are generally between 133 and 150 Ipi.)

Itty-bitty Originals

To “blow up” a scan (print it larger
than the original image), you will have
to interpolate some picture informa-
tion. How much you’ll have to interpolate is determined by the
output resolution you need. Let’s assume that you are enlarging a
portion of a photo, such as one face in a group shot.

There are two ways you can go about blowing up a portion of a
picture. You can scan it at your scanner’s true maximum resolution
(also referred to as optical resolution) and let Photoshop interpolate
it, or you can interpolate it while you’re scanning, using the interpo-
lation feature built into most scanning software.

If you want to increase the scanning resolution to 600 dpi (and
your scanner’s optical resolution is only 300 dpi) , the software inter-
polates by looking at each pixel in the scan and then inserting an
extra pixel between each adjacent pair. It determines the color and
luminance of these new pixels by comparing the two on each side of
the extra, guessing at what the new one should look like.

It sounds complicated, and it is. Nevertheless, Photoshop and
most decent scanning software packages do a pretty good job. You
need extreme magnification to see any difference in scan quality
between the two. The real advantage in using Photoshop for your
inteipolation chores is in the speed of the process. Photoshop takes

AT EXTREME
MAGNIFICA-
TION, the file
that was
Interpolated
by Photoshop
(on right)
shows a little
smoother,
more gradual
interpolation
method.

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much less time to get the scan to the proper size and resolution.

Do the various contrast, brightness, and hue adjustments on the
lower optical-resolution image in Photoshop before you interpolate
it up to the desired specifications, and you’ll also get a speed
increase, because it’s much quicker to do these on a small image
than on a large one. You should, however, leave the sharpening step
(usually a necessary task even when you don’t interpolate) for the
final image. The “sharpen” filters work much better when you have
more pixels for them to “bite” on.

Always scan firom an original that is as close as possible to the
intended output size. (Larger is better than smaller.) If an item
needs to be “blown up,” scan at the highest optical resolution and
do any sizing and resolution adjustment within Photoshop.

PROBLEM

Cruddy Color

In the early days of flatbed scanning,
you used to hear a lot about colors
being skewed and hues being off. With
the advent of color management software (of which ColorSync is an
unheralded champion), this is far less of a problem. Often the sfight
off-color tint of a photo is magnified by the limited color palette of
the scanner and/or printer. For example, a photo that is just a little
on the “warm” side can result in some really orange skin tones when
it prints out on your StyleWriter 2500.

Photoshop offers hue and saturation control over images (as
does most image-manipulation software).
One of Photoshop’s best features is that it
gives you control over the individual hues,
allowing you to alter specific tones in the
picture and leave the rest alone.

Let’s say you have a picture of two
people standing in front of a blue sky late
in the day. It’s not unusual for their skin
tones to take on a very warm appear-
ance, even if they aren’t beer-laden and
sunburned. Although you want to correct
the skin tones, you certainly don’t want
to affect the blue sky and other items in
the photo.

Fk the skin tones by accessing the
Hue/Saturation control panel (under
Image) and click on the red section
(“R”). I find that if I add some yellow to
the red mix, decrease the color satura-
tion, and then fighten it up a fittle, the skin
tones normally fall into place.

It would be nice if there were a magic
formula to figure the number of manipu-
lations the “average” bad scan needs.
Unfortunately, there is no average — ^you’ll
just have to try it out for yourself.

i PHOTO TAKEN NEAR SUNSET,
and after a full day of sunshine, can
cause flesh tones to be red and ruddy.

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tones globally, you’ll want to deal with
only those in the red spectrum.

That’S a
Moire

You may want
to scan a
photo that has been previously printed via
halftone, such as in a brochure or a news-
paper. When scanning halftones at a high
resolution, you will often get a series of
bars, or a herringbone pattern, referred to
as a moire pattern. The many variables in
the halftone printing process (such as line

ADDING SOME YELLOW to the red
value, desaturating the color, and light-
ening it up make the flesh tones appear
far more natural.

THE INITIAL SCAN
resolution of 300 dpi
causes a moire
pattern. It shows up
as rainbow-colored
stripes throughout
the photo.

THE SAME PHOTO
scanned at a much
lower resolution of
150 dpi has no
moire problems.

TILTING THE PHOTO
slightly on the scan-
ner can result in an
increase, a decrease,
or, as in this exam-
ple, a change in the
moire pattern. This
herringbone pattern
is a common moire
problem.

AFTER ONE APPLICA-
TION of the Blur More
filter, the moire has
disappeared with
very little reduction in
sharpness, even
though this Image
has retained its
300-dpi resolution.

screen number and angle) mean that there is no single solution to
the moire problem. One rule, however, is universal: The higher the
resolution of the scan, the more apparent the moire will be.

The first step to avoiding a moire pattern is to determine pre-
cisely the resolution you need and scan the image at that resolution.
If there is no moire, you’re in luck. If you have a problem, you
should first try the Blur More option under the Filters menu.
Althougli this Mter will soften the image, it will remove all but the
most glaring cases of scanning moire.

In extreme cases, try changing the angle at which you place the
photo on the scanner. This trick may decrease or do away with the
moire pattern altogether. Just as often, however, it will either
increase the pattern or change it into a totally different problem,
such as going from the herringbone to bars.

If that happens, just rescan the image at a different tilt degree
or at the opposite angle. Remember, though, that even if this
workaround works, you will need to rotate the scan in Photoshop
(or your scanning softwm’e) to get the image straight again. This
may result in some loss of detail; the extent of loss depends on the
scan resolution.

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Muddy Line Art

The best way to scan a text-filled docu-
ment (or line art document) is in the
1-bit, “it’s either black or white” mode.
This approach makes for crisp black lines against a white background.
Unfortunately, it also makes for very blotchy photos and continuous-
tone gr^hics, and if the text is printed on top of a continuous-tone
graphic, you simply won’t be able to read it.

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Scans

When you’re adjusting scans, it’s Important to remember that
you’re working with your original. If you go too far in any manipula-
tion, it will be hard, if not impossible, to return to the starting point.

If you’re concerned about the possibility of not being able to
rescan, such as when you will not have access to the original
material, you should always perform your scan manipulations on
a copy of the original scan. Assuming that the scan isn’t incredibly
large, and that you’re blessed with a roomy hard drive, doing a
Save as... on the scans at different stages in your changes will
allow you to safely experiment and get the results you want.

Preserve the integrity of a printed page by scanning in grayscale
mode. Unfortunately, both the text and the background will appear in
various shades of gray as well, resulting in a “muddy” scan. This result
is particularly problematic when the im^e is printed. It’s even worse
when the background page isn’t white, such as the Yellow ?d%es.

This problem is easy to solve. Once you’ve scaimed the p^e into
Photoshop, access the Levels function (which is a submenu of the
Adjust function) under the Image menu. Move the far-right triangle,
under what looks like a mountain range of tonal values, toward the
left, redefining where “white” is in the scan. If you have the Preview
option selected, you’ll see an immediate difference as you adjust the
white point. For close detail, you can magnify the scan to easily read
the text to make sure you aren’t adversely affecting it. If the text suf-
fers when you get the white where you want it, adjust the middle
triangle to manipulate the “middle gray,” and bring the text back into
line. Also apply the Levels adjustment to color and grayscale images
to brighten (or otherwise adjust) them.

Again, there is no m^c formula to determine what degree of
adjustment will be necessary.

Scan Management

Once you have your scans just the way you like them, you will prob-
ably use a page layout program for your final output. My favorite is
Adobe PageMaker, but most programs handle scanned images in
roughly the same way. Depending on the value you’ve set in the pro-
gram’s preferences, your page layout program will alert you when
you place an image that \rill result in an unwieldy document file. It
will then ask you if you want to place the entire image in the docu-
ment or just use a placeholder.

If you opt for the entire image, then the document file size will be
increased by the size of the scan. A newsletter using only two or three
scans will quickly become far too large to fit onto a floppy disk.
Although this isn’t a big problem if you’re going to print your proj-
ect on your personal printer, it can be inconvenient if you need to
take the project to a commercial printing firm for final output on a
high-resolution printing device.

A better method is to opt for the placeholder option, which
imports a very low-resolution version of the image for placement,
cropping, and sizing purposes. When you print the document, the
application accesses die high-resolution file and applies the crop-
ping and additional image tweaking.

If you keep your scans in the 1MB range (which is normally good
enou^ for black-and-white and grayscale printing), you can com-
fortably fit each scan on a floppy disk to transport the files to your
final printing destination. Simply place all the scanned images and
the document file in the same folder on the host Mac and you’re
ready to go. —J, Daniel Jones

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For a truly multimedia experience, let your Web site be heard, not just seen.

FIND THE
SHAREWARE
mentioned
on The Disc.

The World Wide Web may qualify as “multimedia,” but in
case you hadn’t noticed, it ain’t too “multi.” It’s thin on
every medium but the visual, and there isn’t much out there
in the way of sound. Do your part to remedy this horrible
oversight. This month we’ll show you how to prepare and
upload sound samples from an audio CD to your Web site.

What if you want to take a sound from, say, an audiocassette
instead of a CD? You’ll need an AV Mac or a Mac with a sound-
processing card, such as Digidesign’s Audiomedia II or Spectral
Innovations’ Numedia. If you’re so equipped, you just need to run
an audio cable from the line-out jacks on your cassette deck to the
audio-in jacks on your sound card or AV Mac. The microphone
input on non-AV Macs will give you unhappy results.

Before you plunge into our tutorial on adding sound to your Web
page, however, there are a few things you should know.

Your visitors won’t hear music greet them when they arrive at
your p^e. That’s possible only if they use a sound plug-in file such
as RealAudio or Shockwave (few people currently have one
installed) and if you use an expensive and complicated tool to create
these types of sounds. What we’ll do instead is create a sound file for
your visitors to download. A browser will automatically play it
after download, using a helper application such as Norman Franke’s
SoundApp freeware.

A 30-second sound file with AM-radio-quality, monaural sound
occupies roughly 350K. Visitors with a 28.8Kbps connection will
spend about three minutes downloading each 30-second sound, and

l4,4Kbps connections will take at least twice that long. Remember
your own precious Web space, too: Just six of these 30-second
samples will occupy more dian 2MB.

Unless you’ve created the sound or taken it from a special
royalty-free collection, you may not legally post a sound file with-
out explicit permission from the copyright holder. It’s a myth that
copyright applies only to people using the sound in a for-profit
venture. The good news is that it’s surprisingly easy to get a record
company’s permission to post 30-second samples from a CD. I’ve
had good luck simply calling up a record company and asking.

Finally, like everything else, sound comes in way too many
formats. On the Web, you’ll mostly run across three: ulaw, which
originated on Unix machines; WAV, which originated on Windows
machines; and AIFF, which originated on Macs. Every platform has
sound-playing utilities to handle all these formats, but WAV and AIFF
offer the best-quality sound. AIFF has the advantages that it’s easy
for us Mac users to create and play, and is also popular in the
Windows world.

Let’s assume you want your visitors to be able to download a
30-second sample from your favorite CD, the Scamp Records reis-
sue of 101 Strings’ 1968 classic “Astro Sounds From Beyond the
Year 2000.” You’ve already received permission from Ashley at
Scamp, and the CD is in your Mac’s CD-ROM player. (Remember,
you must have two Apple extensions — Foreign File Access and Audio
CD Access — ^installed in your Extensions folder). Follow these steps
to get your site humming.

Get Sound Onto Your Hard Drive

A I The freeware MoviePlayer utility from Apple allows you to copy sound
files directly from a CD,

though the option is rather
well hidden. Use the Open
command to select the CD
and the track. Then click the
Convert button.

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start and end times of your sample. The pointer will tell
you the precise elapsed time within the track as you listen.
Drag the two sliders to select a 30-second sample based
on the time you read from the pointer (or type in the start
and end times). Leave the sampling rate set to stereo and
16 bits — ^you’ll change it later with a sound-editing utility.

SELECT YOUR
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When you’re happy with the sample, click OK and the file will
be saved to your hard drive as an AIFF file occupying probably
3MB or 4MB of hard disk space. You can play it back with any
QuickTime movie-playing application.

If you’re lucky enough to own Macromedia’s SoundEdit Pro,
use it Instead of MoviePlayer to copy the track because the track
will be recorded directly into SoundEdit Pro, where you can tweak
it. In SoundEdit Pro, choose Convert CD Audio from the Xtras

menu, and follow precisely the same steps using precisely the
same dialog boxes as just described.

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Tweak the Sound

If the sample is perfect just the way it is, you’re ready to post it
on your Web site, but chances are you’ll need to make It a
reasonable size, and you’ll probably want to give it a pleasant fade
in and fade out. You can use an expensive professional tool such
Digidesign’s Protools or Macromedia’s SoundEdit Pro, or a share-
ware application such as SoundEffects.

Let’s use SoundEdit Pro. Make a copy of your sound file and
open it. If you know what you’re doing, first tweak the sound by
applying functions such as Normalize, Equalizer, Compression, and
Noise Gating to get the most from the sample.

^ SoundEdit’s Normalize, under the Effects menu, is especially
useful and essentially foolproof. It makes the sound as loud as .
possible without “clipping,*’ which creates distortion. Set Normalize
to too percent and apply it to the whole sample. If you don’t know
what the other terms mean, don’t worry about it

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most out of your

B Now let’s add a smooth fade in and fade out. Save a copy first so you
can revert to a clean original. Then select about five seconds of sound
at the very end of the file and choose Envelope from the Effects menu.
Drag the right-hand handle all the way to the floor (bottom of the screen)
to smoothly fade out the last five seconds of the sample. Use the
Envelope effect to do precisely the opposite to the first five seconds of
the sample for a smooth fade in. Experiment with faster or slower fades.

DRAG THE HANDLE on the right all
the way down to fade the sound out.

Shrink the Sound

You’ll also want to use SoundEdit Pro to shrink the
file to a less painful download size. Your best bet for a
fair tradeoff between sound quality and file size is 8-bit
sampling resolution, 1 1 KHz sampling rate, monaural.

If your sample ends up sounding horribly noisy — and
some samples will— -consider creating a sample half
the length at twice the sampling rate: a 15-second
sample at 22KHz.

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If SoundEdit Pro isnl in your budget, use a shareware sound tool such
as SoundEffects ($15). It lacks the ability to record directly from the CD,
so you’ll need to copy the file with MoviePlayer and then open it in
SoundEffects.

SoundEffects has simple fade-out and fade-in effects — ^just select
a portion of the sound and apply the effect. When you need to reduce the
sound to 8-bit, 1 1 KHz, use SoundEffects’ Downsample Bits and Resample
Rate functions under the Effects menu.

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Upload Your Sound!

A previous “How To”
(Dec/96, p102) covered
the details of uploading
files to your Web site,
and uploading a sound
file is no different from
uploading any other
file. After you’ve put a
pointer to the file on
your page, use Fetch
shareware to upload the
sound In raw format to
the proper directory on
your Web host You may
want to create a special
directory for sounds. Be
sure to test the sound,
and ask a Windows user
to download and test it
as well. Nothing pisses
off visitors more than a
three-minute download
that produces nothing!
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Gi What is the RAM Disk in the Memory controi
panel? I have 40MB of real memory, but I have never
used the RAM disk. Should I turn it on, and how much
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on The Disc. W A RAM disk is a portion of your Mac’s memory set aside to act
as a disk drive. RAM disks differ from real disks in that they are much
faster and don’t retain their contents when the computer is shut down.
For these reasons, RAM disks are best used to hold temporary files
that you access frequently.

To create a RAM disk, double-click the Memory control panel and
click the On radio button. Drag the lever to the percentage of avail-
able memory you want to use. Memory allocated to a RAM disk is no
longer available for other system uses, so don’t make the RAM disk so
large that you can’t run desired programs. With 40MB, that shouldn’t
be a problem. Start off by allocating a megabyte or two. Close the
Memory control panel and choose Restart from the Special menu.
When the Finder reappears, you’ll see a RAM disk icon on the desktop
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be retrieved from the hard disk or the Internet. To designate the RAM
disk as the place to store Navigator’s cache, choose Network Prefer-
ences from the Options menu in Navigator, then click Browse and
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files for working on your Mac are on the RAM disk, the hard drive can
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the documents on the RAM disk to a floppy every so often, just in case.

fli I have a Power Mac 7200/90, and its 500MB hard
drive is almost full. Whafs the best way of adding
another drive? Is there room inside my Mac for a second
internal drive? if not, should I buy an external drive?
Or should I buy an empty external case for my existing
internal drive and install a new drive in its place?

A The easiest thing to do is buy an external drive and attach it
to the SCSI port on the back of your Mac. Of course, external drives
cost $50 to $100 more than internal drives of the same size
because they come in a case with a power supply and cables.
Although you could yank the 500MB drive, put it in an external
case, and insert a new drive in its place, there’s no need to go to
that extra work and expense. Fortunately, all 7200 and later Power
Macs have at least one internal expansion bay large enough to hold
a second SV^-inch, half-height drive. The SCSI cable and power
cord are already inside, so aU you need is an internal drive, plastic

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mounting sled (ask your drive vendor to supply this if possible, or
order part No. 922-1124 from an authorized Apple service center
and expect to pay about $12), and nimble little ^gers. Getting the
second drive in place is a bit tricky because the cables aren’t very
long and you must work in a cramped space, so it might not be a bad
idea to hire a technician to perform the installation if you have any
trouble (of course, this adds to the total cost of the drive).

Q Two of my friends just bought Performa 6116s, and
neither of them is able to play audio CDs. Everything
seems to be working correctly (the AppleCD Audio
Player is in the Apple menu), but no sound comes out of
either the internal speaker or the headphone jack.
What’s wrong?

Hi Most likely these Macs haven’t been set up to play music from
the built-in CD. That’s easily rectified. Open the Sound control panel
and choose Sound In from the pop-up menu. Make sure Built-in is
selected, then chck Options. In the following dialog box, click the
Internal CD radio button, select the Playthrough checkbox, then
chck OK. You should now be able to listen to discs using the
AppleCD Audio Player. If you want discs to begin playing automati-
caUy when inserted, make sure you have QuickTime 2.5 or later
and select the Enable Audio CD AutoPlay checkbox in the Quick-
Time Settings control panel.

Sound

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IF YOUR MAC WON’T PLAY AUDIO CDS, check to make sure that the
Sound control panel is properly configured.

0 I liked David Reynolds’s recent comparison of
new Macs (“Too Many *#!@$ Systems,” Oct/96, p44).
One nagging question remains, however. Is there any
forthcoming software that will require a PowerPC 604
(or 604e) as a minimum to run?

A I’m not privy to the development efforts of all Mac vendors, but
it’s unhkely Aat any publisher is going to release a mainstream
product that requires a Mac with a PowerPC 604 or greater CPU in

ignlng Bonus

If you’ve ever cracked open the case of an early Mac, you may
have noticed a bunch of signatures in raised plastic on the inside
back panel. Steve Jobs felt that the Mac was a piece of art,
and since real artists sign their masterpieces, he and the other
employees of the Mac division in 1982 affixed their signatures to a
large sheet of paper. When everyone had signed, a film negative
was made from the paper, and the signatures were chemically
etched Into the core of the tooling for the inside of the original Mac.
Over time some signatures were added and others were dropped
ostensibly to accommodate changes in the case design. Apple
continued using case molds with signatures until sometime during
the production of the Mac SE, at which time signature-free molds
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below the motherboard. — From “The Mac Bathroom Reader”

the near future simply because that would severely limit the size of
its market. After all, it has been more than two years since Apple
introduced the first PowerPC-based Mac, and there is still a huge
number of programs that support 680X0 processors. Unless you
plan to perform some seriously CPU-intensive tasks, such as high-
end 3D modeling and graphics rendering, rest assured that any
current Mac you buy today is going to provide plenty of power to run
most programs well into the future.

Q Sometimes while listening to an audio CD on my
Power Mac 7500 (I’m running System 7.5.3 Revision 2
with QuickTime 2.5 installed), the disc simply stops
playing for no apparent reason. What causes this
annoying discus interruptus?

A Apple acknowledges that this is a known bug. On PCI-based
desktop Macs, the Energy Saver control panel sometimes interrupts
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Qi I finally upgraded from a Mac SE/30 to a new
Power Mac with a 17-inch monitor. The difference in
speed is unbelievable! However, after using the
SE/30’s built-in 9-inch monitor for so long, I find the
large monitor a mixed blessing. It’s great to have all
that extra space, but I’m tired of mousing around such
a huge screen. Any suggestions?

/li 1 experienced the same thing when I first got a large screen.
At first I bumped up Mouse Tracking to Fast in the Mouse control
panel so the cursor would move farther for every inch I rolled the
mouse, but that helped only a little. Fortunately, I found several
shareware control panels that reduce the mousing burden consid-
erably and offer useful new features.

First, I recommend that everyone get the shareware program
Snap-To from Trevden Sherzell, no matter what size screen you
use. This little gem automatically centers the cursor over the
default button of dialog and alert boxes. Just click and the cursor
snaps back to its original position. So simple and helpful, Snap-To
should be part of the Mac OS.

I’m also a big fan of the shareware programs DoubleScroll and
Smart Scroll. From Edward Voas, DoubleScroll puts up and down
arrows at both ends of every scroll bar, thereby grouping all the
controls necessary to scroll in any direction in one convenient
spot. This works well in conjunction with Marc Moini’s Smart
Scroll, which expands the scroll box to show how large the
portion of the document displayed in the window is compared to
the whole document. Not only does this visually provide some
useful information, the larger scroll box is easier to drag.

Another utility I couldn’t live without is Dialog View, James
Walker’s control panel that expands the standard open and save

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Using AppleScript

Recording a script

You can use the Script Editor to record a series of actions.
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scriptable and recordable.

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scroll bar and by enlarging the scroll box to show the portion of the
visible document, respectively.

dialog boxes to fill the screen if you wish. With more files listed in
these dialog boxes, the need to scroll to find what you want is
greatly reduced. Again, here’s something so elegant and useful I
don’t know why Apple hasn’t incorporated it into the Mac OS.

Finally, you should consider using a trackball instead of a
mouse. I tried many different input devices over the years, and
always returned to die mouse, until I set up two monitors on my
Mac. All that extra space simply demands a better way of moving
the cursor around. For me, the $115 Kensington liirbo Mouse 5.0
(800-535-4242; http://www.kensington.com) is the answer. Its
large ball rolls smoothly in my palm, and it has four user-definable
buttons logically placed where my fingers naturally fall. A flick of
a finger sends the cursor flying from one edge of the screen to the
other. It took me a few weeks to grow accustomed to using the
trackball instead of the mouse, but now I’d never go back.

0 rm about to upgrade to System 7.5.3 (the “Unity”
release), and the ReadMe specifies that “if your
computer has an IDE hard disk, you should update
your driver as part of the installation of this software...
using Drive Setup,” Forgive my ignorance, but what’s
an IDE hard disk?

A Not too long ago, all Macs used SCSI (Small Computer
Systems Interface) hard drives exclusively. Then Apple figured
out it might be able to save some money if Macs used the
cheaper IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drives commonly
found on IBM PC AT compatibles (IDE is also referred to as the
ATA interface). IDE drives are comparable to SCSI drives in
speed, but you needn’t bother setting identification and termi-
nation. Because of differences such as these, make sure you are
using IDE-aware hard disk utilities whenever attempting to
update drivers or perform other functions such as formatting.
The following Mac families have IDE disks internally but still
have a SCSI port for external devices: Mac 630, LC 580, Performa
5200/5300/6200/6300, PowerBook 150/190/2300/5300, and
Power Mac 5200/5300.

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Point’s ports so much better than
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the coffee of other developers? To
find out, we spoke with Brian
Fitzgerald, principal of Future Point.

MA: How do you successfully *
port games to the Mac platform?

make our own Mac opening dialog — but we
were able to get away with not changing much
else because they had already come toward the
Mac interface. And that may be the key as to why
some people perceive a game as a good port or
bad port. Doom had a lot of complaints when it
came out last year because it looked exactly like
the PC version. People were expecting it to
somehow look more Mac-like.

MA: Does Blizzard give you free reign
to make these interface changes?

BF: They’ve been very cool about everything.
They basically say, “Here, go do this.” We come
back and show them, and they say, “Oh, that’s
really cool.” Every once in a while, they’ll
say, “Oh, you can’t do that.” For the
most part, though, they trust that we
know what we’re doing on the Mac.

MA: So you were able to
add features to Warcraft II that
just aren’t on the PC, such as
* speech recognition?

BF: First, you have to produce a game that is
at least as good as the original. If a game doesn’t
come out at the exact same instant as the
original, people feel let down if the ported game
isn’t better. You have to exceed the features of
the original. Second, it has to be a Mac pro-
gram. People might say, “It’s a game; we don’t
need to make it follow human interface guide-
lines.” That’s true to a certain extent, but you
can’t just suspend the entire Mac interface, or
people who play the game do not feel like
they’re on a Macintosh anymore.

With Warcraft I, we redid a
lot of the two-player dialog (g||’t
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dialogs instead of the
PC dialogs. Warcraft n was
easier because they imple-
mented a dialog manager
on the PC that was
similar to the Mac’s. So we

enhanced things — 'we did a Macintosh anymore.

Some of those features were simply eas-
ier to add to the Mac than the PC. The other
part is just that the PC designers concentrated
on other things. The PC version could have had
stereo sound, and I imagine Starcraft PC will
have stereo sound, but we were able to put that
in Mac versions of Warcraft I and Warcraft n
pretty easily. It’s all a matter of time. You work
on a game for a year and you’ve got to ship it.

MA: Do you have any part In actually
designing the game itself?

You

just suspend
the entire Mac interface, or
people who play the game
do not feel like they're on

BF: That’s pretty much

Blizzard. We’re obviously
hoping to put more and
more into real input and
partnership, but so far
we’ve just been porting.

MA: But then that
gives you the leeway
to do cool Mac stuff.

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BF: It works out pretty weB for everyone.

A couple of times people from the PC side have
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placement — ^we didn’t go all the way — ^there’s a
lot of room there. Right now, we’re working on
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IVIA: Do Diablo and Starcraft use the
same kind of engine as Warcraft?

BF: No, Starcraft and Diablo are Windows 95
applications; Warcraft and Warcraft II were DOS
applications. So in some respects, our job is
easier; in others, it has been harder because
Windows has different ways of doing the inter-
face. With DOS they didn’t even bother [to think
about the external interface] in the first place.
But it’s good to see the PC side going to
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to have to worry about the same things that
we’ve worried about on the Mac for years. Being
respectful of other applications, for instance.

One of the decisions we made in Warcraft
was to let other programs run at the same time.
A lot of games just assume they’re the only pro-
gram running on the machine. But a lot of
people run a chat program and Warcraft n at
the same time, while they’re looking for some-
one to play on the Internet. If we hadn’t taken
some care to make sure they could run both
programs at the same time, that wouldn’t have
been easy. A lot of games basicaUy suck up aU
the CPU cycles; DOS is the same way. When
you’re running a DOS game, it assumes that it
owns the machine,

MA: Is that why people claim it will be
easier to port more Mac games, because
Windows has something analogous to
the Mac toolbox and DOS doesn’t?

BF: Not reaBy. When we ported Warcraft, we
took the game and ran it in a thread inside our
Mac program. We split the program into two
parts for the Mac version — the user interface,
which does aB the graphics and toolbox caBs,
and then the whole game, as a sort of thread.
That was actuaBy pretty easy to do, by compart-
mentalizing things. In porting Windows pro-
grams, you start having Windows caBs strewn
throughout your code if you’re not careful.
People who write in DOS tend to write so close
to the machine, they think almost in terms of
hardware, and you reaBy can’t do that when
you’re writing on a Mac or a Windows-type
platform. You’ve got to think at a higher level.

[How easy it is to port a game] has more to
do with how careful Ae original programmers
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MA: What makes a great game?

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ers wiU do a game and they won’t be able to
express what their game reaUy is — you’B see
some shoot-’em-up games where you just fly
around and shoot things. But something that
can hold your attention for more than a few
hours has a depth to it that is just almost inde-
scribable. Warcraft II became a big hit
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little touches that aB work weB together,
people get drawn into it. And that is what sep-
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AX-1200 Scantouch flatbed scanner 725.91

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Wishbone, TV’s top dog and CD-ROM star, takes
on the role of Bone of Arc in this direct-to-video
release. We hope the movie will fare better than the

“Macintosh ActiveX is Microsoft’s native implementation of ActiveX con-
trols. (For those unfamiliar with a ‘control,’ the best way to think of it is as
the next-generation plug-in technology for Web browsers.)" — Read this

Microsoft press
release backwards
and in a mirror to decipher the hidden message; Microsoft, too afraid to
compare ActiveX with the more powerful Open Doc or the more popular

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to Apple’s Chief H ^ ^

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“I can no longer deal with it. It’s far too complicated,” said
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen in an October 1996
interview on PBS’s “Charlie Rose Show.” Andreessen, icorfi-

plaining about his home PC, admitted that

and Errors his CD-ROM drive won't work, his printer

won’t print, his computer crashes every
hour on the hour, and he doesn’t know why it’s happening.
Mere sour grapes, or the simple truth? Who cares?!’

Trials

“We are getting between 15
^and 20 messages a day from
all over the world,” said Avi
Moskowitz, president of Virtual
Jerusalem (http://www.virtual^
co.il), an Israeli firm that’s
handling God’s e-mail. The
Company claims that it does
not read the e-mail but merely
prints it out and stuffs if into
Jerusalem’s Walfeg Wall, The
company do^ not, however,
handle His voice mail.

The MacAddict crew is now collecting donations for Associate Editor Dave
Reynolds, whose name has been trademarked by Thursby Software
Systems for its cross-platform file-sharing program, DAVE"”. All proceeds
i from the Save Dave campaign will go toward the enormous licensing fees
k that Dave will now be forced to pay each time his name appears in
W print. All others going by the name of Dave are currently being advised
to change their name to something less marketable like... Bob. Ummm,
we mean, Lisa. No... hmm... how about A.D.A.M.?

poor pooch’s CD-ROM
rendition of “The
Odyssey,” which our
local elementary school
principal doles out as
punishment for the more
troublesome tots. Looks
like we all have our
crosses to bear.

Java, has decided once again to promote its own lower standard,

“There’s 52 million scream-
ing K-12 children to sell to,”
said Robert Kondrick, man-
ager of Apple’s education
product lines, in an October
Reuters article announcing
the eMale 300, —Wait, you
can almost hear their young
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the Apple eMate 300!

Quick, Mom, can I have an
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technology goes away?"

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